Early Marriage and Health Status of Magar Women
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Department of Population Education
Abstract
In this study entitled “Early Marriage and Health Status of Magar Women in Sunchahari
Rural Municipality of Rolpa District”. In this research the researcher has interests in the
study the Women in different effects of early marriage on women’s health. This
descriptive study was carried out for the fulfillment of three objectives such as to analyze
the socio demographic characteristics of Magar women, to find out the cause of the early
marriage and to identify the effect of early marriage on women’s health status.
Information was drawn from 150 out of 638 married Magar women under the age of 20
years by using structured interview. The respondents were selected through simple
random sampling method and under which lottery method was used and descriptive
analysis and interpretations of the data was done based on quantitative discussion.
In this study, 43.33 percent respondents had got married due to their tradition and 23.33
percent women got married due to lack of education. Most of the females of the selected
area had gotten married before the age of seventeen. Similarly, the majority of the
mothers had been pregnant under the age of 19. About 76 percent respondents were
illiterate and only 24 percent were literate. The socioeconomic status of women was also
poor.
In conclusion, it was found that the main causes of early marriage were tradition, lack of
education, poverty, low socio economic status of women etc. To reduce the rate of early
marriage, it is necessary to promote their educational and socio-economic status. In
addition to this, it is also equally important to give them knowledge about the risk factors
of early pregnancy, which tends to bring risk in maternal and child health through
different programs. It is necessary to remove their traditional concept towards marriage
and pregnancy with the effective and educational programs.