Tuesday, May 17, 2005
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The deadly attack on anganwadi worker Shakuntala Verma in Madhya Pradesh, in which her arms were chopped while she was trying to prevent a child marriage, is distressing. Child marriages continue to take place in backward rural areas for various reasons. Parents feel it is safer to marry off their daughters before they attain puberty; menfolk in some communities believe marriage with a young girl will cure them of sexually transmitted diseases; some parents think they can get rid of their daughters with a smaller dowry if they are young or that they may not find a groom if their girls do not grow up into beautiful women. Governments do not interfere with these beliefs due to fear of losing votes. It is therefore for the communities themselves to reform if child marriages are to be abolished.
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