Child marriages are practiced commonly till today for a
variety of reasons, including poverty, insecurity, as well as for political and
financial reasons. Girls are always treated as burden. If the gals are married
early the parents feel they have to feed, educate and provide clothing to less
kids. And moreover Dowry paid by the family is less when the girl is young and
uneducated. Sometime parents fear the safety of their gals so they tend to
marry them off at an early age. Today, child marriages are widespread in many
countries, such as parts of Africa, South Asia, Southeast and East Asia, West
Asia, Latin America and Oceania.
Married at 13 and got pregnant at 14.After several hours of
labor baby would not come out. The passage for the baby head to pass through was
very narrow as our dear gal was very young. After several hours of pushing the
baby will not come out.
Due to lack of equipment emergency Cesarean Section cannot
be performed. So due to pushing hard the tissue around her birth canal and
bladder died off, creating a fistula, or hole known as Vesico-Vaginal Fistula,
VVF. One of the millions of girls aged 11-18 in the country who become mothers
early suffer from this disorder. There is a continuous and uncontrollable
leakage of urine from the bladder. And if instead of urine uncontrolled passage
of faeces occurs it is referred to as Recto-Vaginal Fistula, RVF.
It usually occurs when a girl who is too young to get
pregnant in the first place, suffers prolonged labor without timely access to
emergency Cesarean Section. A girl kid when have a kid may either rupture her
uterus, and both the girl and the baby may die. The other thing that can happen
is VVF/RVF.As a result husband will reject her because she will be smelling of
urine and will be sent back to her parents.
Parents are the one who introduces the kid to this world.
And its their responsibility to give them a beautiful life. The gals should
never suffer the weakness of their parents. They are very tender and we cannot
expect them to bring a change. We as a parent are responsible for their upbringing.
If we are not financially well then we should never think of bringing the kid
in this world. If we are worried about their security then we are the foolish
people on earth as if we cannot protect our kids then how can we expect others
to protect our kids. And if cultural values are the reason behind then we need
to get courage to fight back and be persistent. Persistence will surely bring a
change.
