One of the marriage types which I came across and had and
somewhat falls under that title “a bride with no choice”, is child marriage.
This type of marriage occurs when a person under the legal age of 18 is either
forced or enters a marriage with either someone older than them or of the same
age.
This kind of marriage is one which caught my attention as
throughout history and the modern day these are large numbers of young girls
who enter such marriages; what makes this something worth writing about are the
statistic showing just how many of these marriages are due to parents forcing their
children into marriage and just how many of these led to violence against these
young bride. Even in this day of children’s rights and laws put in place for
the protection of young girls, it is still however a worldwide issue.
To further validate my desire to want to create an awareness
and form a narrative about child marriages is the reason that in certain places
throughout the word and within history some of the child marriages are and were
the result of the traumatic custom of bride kidnapping/ ukuthwala, which is one
of the marriage types I wish to investigate further. Although these topics have
been investigated, I do feel that I can offer a different perspective to this
if not only contribute to the awareness of the effects of such customs for
child bride.
Girls Not BridesChild marriage
https://www.unfpa.org/child-marriage
Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse
