BHUBANESWAR: Over 37 per cent girls marry before 18 years and 13 per cent young men also tie with couple before 21 years in Orissa.
This was stated by Shairose Mawji, the chief of UNICEF in the state while addressing a function marking release of State of the World’s Children report.
“This has serious repercussions particularly on the health of young women when we consider child birth,” she said adding over 14 per cent women aged 15-19 years were already mothers or pregnant at the time of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-III) in 2005-06.
A leading reason for all this is lack of education especially among young women, she pointed out adding in rural parts of the state, girls are less likely to attend school than boys and this gap increases by age.
via PUBLIC TRUST OF INDIA – 37% girls early marriage before 18 in Orissa, UNICEF.
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