Early Marriages Sample Clauses

Early Marriages. Participants explained that frequent early school dropout led to early marriages in the community. Once the youths quit school and stay at home, there isn’t much to do. Therefore they resort to early marriages. Following marriage, the community immediately expects babies. If there is no pregnancy within a few months, it is concluded that there are infertility problems. Elders may offer to assist with infertility solutions. Consequently, though a couple is not ready to procreate, they may conceive because of the pressure. Furthermore, participants reported that there are more early marriages in Mulanje than in districts where lobola (bride wealth) is practiced. For those districts, participants reported that it is not allowed to be sexually active before paying the lobola. Therefore, as a large amount of money is required for lobola, it acts as a deterrent to un-prepared xxxxxx. In addition, the wedding parties themselves are expensive. On the contrary, in Mulanje district, it is easy to get married because there is no lobola; for that reason less investment is required. Moreover, the wedding party may just be a small function between families of the bride and groom. The participant below explains: FGD 4 P3 (adult male): “What I see as the other reason why these problems come is mainly because we rush in getting married here…In our friends’ communities you ‘buy’ a woman that you cannot ask her out just like that…Even if your sexual desires are so high, there’s no way you can touch a girl around without paying for her first. Yet back home here, we just say aah, I want you so we’ll see what to do; you just discuss…It is why those people ‘buy’ each other yet we don’t do that here. So this is what is destroying us here, since we just ask each other out easily.” Furthermore, participants discussed that young men in rural communities rarely receive support from parents beyond adolescence. Parents feel that once individuals pass adolescence and are initiated, they are old enough to support themselves or get married. Therefore, they encourage them to marry. This norm is similar to the experiences of the parents from their own parents, hence the circle continues, plummeting more youths into early marriages. Following marriage, the young men are required to live in their wife’s village. They are given a piece of land to build a house and grow food but, due to limited land, the piece of land is usually small. Initially, the young couple depends on the wife’s family, b...
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