The phenomenon of Child Marriage is referred to as a marriage or similar union between child and an adult another under the age eighteen. causes include: family relations, sexual discrimination, controlling relationships maintaining dignity family, certain economic factors other social cultural well.

Theoretically, a shortage of males in a local marriage market may influence the formation, quality, and trajectory of unmarried parent relationships. To test these hypotheses, I combine city-level sex ratio data from the U.S. census with microdata on unmarried couples who recently had a child from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study. A shortage of men in a marriage market is associat...

In this paper I use individual level data from the 2001 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to examine whether the strength of state child support enforcement efforts affects nonmarital birth or marriage rates. Evidence is mixed, but in the preferred specifications increased efforts at enforcement lead to a decrease in likelihood of marriage among never married childl...

OBJECTIVE To assess associations between maternal child marriage (marriage before age 18) and morbidity and mortality of infants and children under 5 in India. Design Cross-sectional analyses of nationally representative household sample. Generalised estimating equation models constructed to assess associations. Adjusted models included maternal and child demographics and maternal body mass ind...

A rapid rise in women’s education levels, an increase in the age at marriage and an increase in the age at which they have their Þrst child are key features of demographic transition in any country. Education is considered to be an essential component in this process because increases in educational attainment are likely to signiÞcantly affect both age at marriage and the duration between marri...