The report highlights community efforts to combat Child, Early, and Forced Marriage (CEFM) in Nigeria, focusing on Jigawa and Cross River states. It covers 12 communities across 6 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in these regions, facing challenges such as poverty, cultural practices, and lack of education, which drive CEFM. The study used both qualitative and quantitative methods, including surveys, interviews, and focus groups, to assess the prevalence, causes, and impact of CEFM. Key findings...
Early marriage below 18 years in Ghana is against the constitutional rights of the victims. Notwithstanding, some communities within the Wa West District of the Upper West Region consider early marriage as a vehicle for providing protection for young girls. The research was carried out to explore the incidence of child marriage and its socio-economic effects on the girl-child in Wa West District of the Upper West Region of Ghana. The study adopted an exploratory design. Data for the study wer...
Zujung is located in the Tamale South Constituency and under the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly. It is located in the outskirts and southern part of the Metropolis and shares boundaries with Builpiela to the North-West and Lamashegu to the East. Recently, the incidence of early marriage has been very high in Ghana. The project therefore, was designed to explore the effects of child marriage on the young people and the Zujung community at large and finding ways to reducing the incidence of child...
Child marriage in the Wa West District is visibly the biggest barrier to female participation in education as it is in other parts of Ghana. The study set out to identified how and why child marriage is a threat to female educational progression in the district. This study is based on the theory of human capital development and on the theories of patriarchy and feminism to emphasis the relevance of education, barriers to education and efforts being made to bridge those barriers. Situated in s...
Abstract The present study aimed to explore the drivers of early marriage and teenage pregnancy in Kenya and Uganda during COVID-19 lockdown period. A systematic review design was adopted. The major online databases utilized were PubMed, Google Scholar, Uganda and Kenya Ministry of Health repositories, ScienceDirect, and Scopus. Studies that were originating from Kenya and Uganda that were publicly available in electronic format published from March 2020 to March 2022 were used. The thematic...
TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENT PAGE DECLARATION iii DEDICATION iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS v TABLE OF CONTENTS vi LIST OF TABLES ix LIST OF ACRONYMS x ABSTRACT xi CHAPTER ONE:INTRODUCTION 1 1.1. Background to the Study 1 1.2. Statement of the Problem 4 1.3. P...
WHAT IS COURT MARRIAGE PROCEDURES OF CONTRACTING A COURT MARRIAGE IN NIGERIA IMPORTANCE OF A COURT MARRIAGE BENEFITS OF CIVIL OR COURT MARRIAGE IN NIGERIA. CONCLUSION
ABSTRACT The study investigated personality, family conflict and age in marriage as predictors of postpartum distress. Two hundred and seven (207) women in their postpartum period participated in the study and were purposefully drawn from Federal Medical Center and Specialist Hospital Lokoja. Three hypotheses were tested: Personality will not significantly related to postpartum distress. Family conflict will not significantly related to postpartum distress. Age in marriage will not significan...
Abstract This study was undertaken to assess women's perceptions and practices of early marriage in Borama district, Somaliland.The study was guided by the following research objectives; to determine the perceptions of Somaliland women on early marriage in Borama district, Somaliland, to examine maniage practices in Borama district, Somaliland and to establish the cultural inclination of Somali land women on early marriage in Borama dist1ict, Somaliland. This study adopted cross-sectional sur...
ABSTRACT The study examined the impact of child marriage on the human rights of children, using selected communities (Tepeth and Matheniko) in Moroto District, Uganda as case study. The study objectives were: to investigate the factors influencing child marriage in Tepeth and Matheniko; to examine the effects of child marriage on the human rights of the victims in Tepeth and Matheniko and to analyze the effects of child marriage on the well-being of the victims and the entire communities of T...
ABSTRACT The research examines the place of inter-cultural marriage in the context of marriage been a universally acknowledged and very important institution in human society, as it is the foundation of group life and a requirement for human survival. The historical research methodology was adopted and the research utilized both primary and secondary sources of data collection. While the primary source of data collection was derived through oral interview from sensible individuals, on the sub...
ABSTRACT This section explains the research findings on Assessing of the impact of child marriage on girl child education. Objectives of the study To measure the impact of child marriage on drop out, literacy and education attainment To briefly adopt some of the policies that could be adopted in order to reduce child marriage To establish the effects of girl child marriage on girl child education In despite of all attention drawn to child marriage across the world, there is a lack of improvem...
ABSTRACT Cohabitation unions have been on the increase perhaps due to the recognition of family units, as a result of increased urbanization and increased isolation of young people from their family network. These unions have become common as the meaning of family continues to increasingly transform in the wake of the fast changing societal values. The proliferation of divorce, re-marriage, step families and single parenthood has liberalized the idea of family from the way it was traditionall...
ABSRACT This paper explores the issue of early marriage in Kenya. It shed light specifically on reason behind its perceptions, its harmful consequences, a barrier to education band enjoyment of girls’ human rights and how it further threatens the development of the county. The finding from an extensive reading of materials related to early marriage suggest that early marriage is due to various factors including among others. The search for economic survival, protection of young girls, peer ...
Table of ContentsDECLARATIONAPPROVALDEDICATION ivACKNOWLEDGEMENT vABSTRACTLIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES xABBREVIATIONSCHAPTER ONE 11.0 Introduction 11.1 Background of the study problem 11.2 Problem statement 31.3 Purpose of the study 41.4 Objectives of the study 41.5 Hypotheses of the study 41.6 Scope of the study 41.6.1 Geographical scope 41.6.2 Content scope 41.6.3 The theoretical scope 41.7 Significance of the study 51.8 Definition of key termsCHAPTER TWO 62.0 Introduction 6vii2.1 Population ...