In the article “FISTULA, A SILENT TRAGEDY FOR CHILD BRIDES”, the author Faith Fookes focuses on the impact of child marriage and the result of becoming pregnant at a young age without being developed fully to conceive a child. First, Fookes starts off defining obstetric fistula, as a childbirth complication resulting from the baby not existing the uterus because it is physically blocked; this occurs because woman 's vagina and bladder or rectum are damaged. She then addresses a shocking statistics about how fistula affects hundreds and thousands of women globally, and of that 90% of them is in Africa. And of this, the most vulnerable population is the young brides. She underlines the problem of child bride globally in which it results in an …show more content…
An example she presented in the article was a case of 16 years old girl that was married to her uncle at the age of 9, and pregnant at 12 in which she developed obstetric fistula after the death of her baby, she was recovering her 4th fistula surgery. This not even close to covering the horrors of childhood marriage in which many young girls are suffering around the global. She concludes that Fistula is 100% preventable, but because many of the young girls undergoing this, is in areas where there is no access to health care and resource, they are badly suffering this and even resulting in death. An important message she addresses is that child bride is preventable as this fistula is if it is taken into consideration in our …show more content…
So is child marriage”. I definitely agree with her, this is an issue that can be solved worldwide if enough people are aware of it. Fistula is something that is easily preventable with the right knowledgeable health providers and access to medical resources. This is an issue that in most developed countries one don’t need to worry, but when we think about areas around the world where poverty and child marriage takes place the most, those are the people that are most disadvantaged with economic, education, and resources to have access to. Educational programs are needed to be established to help educate the people in our society this issues most pertain to, I personally believe that education plays a huge role in many social issues in our world, and this one especially. It is important that everyone understands the basic human right that needs to be guaranteed, the rights even our cultural and religious belief can not interfere
A History of Marriage by Stephanie Coontz speaks of the recent idealization of marriage based solely on love. Coontz doesn’t defame love, but touches on the many profound aspects that have created and bonded marriages through time. While love is still a large aspect Coontz wants us to see that a marriage needs more solid and less fickle aspects than just love.
In their article, Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas focus on the concept of childbearing in poor women and report the results they find from their 2 and a half year study of unmarried women. One of the most interesting concepts they noticed was that these women not only were conscious about their decisions, such as becoming pregnant at a young age or having children out of wedlock, but saw these decisions as being responsible. They explain this as follows: “The growing rarity of marriage among the poor, particularly prior to childbirth, has led some observers to claim that marriage has lost its meaning in low-income communities.” (Promises I Can Keep 11.2). Ultimately, it seems that individuals of the lower class have a very different perception
2) Identify three social determinants of health that contribute to the development of obstetric fistulas in women in developing countries; provide rationale for your
This in itself is not fair to the other members of society as it makes it more dangerous for the others. She uses the unfairness of this negligence to further prove her point through ethos that every socio-economic class should have access to the knowledge of sex education and birth control.
Returning from Europe, Ann learns she is to marry a man of her father's choosing once they arrive in New York. Refusing, she runs away, although she can't go far on a steam ship. Only as far as the stateroom of a very handsome soldier.
Infanticide is a way to alter the reproductive stream before the child has the status of a real person, which is culturally defined (source). The deaths of weak, illegitimate, excess, deformed and unwanted infants are not defined as murder when the infants have not yet been born into the social world. Infanticide occurs cross-culturally for a multitude of causes. The reasons for infanticide can be summed up into three categories: biological (including the health of the child and twin stigmas), economical (relation to other children, women's workload, and available resources) and cultural (preferred gender, illegitimate children). This essay will examine cross-culturally the biological, economic and cultural factors for infanticide.
The first article is by Hadi Danawi, Zenobia Bryant and Tala Hasbini and is entitled Targeting Unintended Teen Pregnancy in the U.S.. This article is all about the numbers and statistics. The authors state that we should take the statistics that we know and use those as a jumping off point on where to direct resources. If we know of a community where there is a higher rate of teen pregnancies, then we can go into those communities and inform the teens of the resources available in the area and offer the teens sexual education classes. The authors also suggested that the best way to end teen pregnancy is not to necessarily target the issue directly but we should target differences within our own communities first. The article also examines which individuals may be more apt to have a teen pregnancy verses others.
After reading the book which mentions the maternal and neonatal situation in Mali, one of the poorest countries in the world, is pitiable. (1) Child birth takes place under lantern light, in Mud bricks with profuse sweating without electricity, no running water, no emergency backup. With only the grace of God and the skill of a midwife that child birth takes place in remote villages in the country of Mali, West Africa, having the third highest total fertility
Quote “See the Taj Mahal by moonlight while our embryo grows in a Petri- dish”. -Slogan from a reproductive Website” In her book “Wombs in Labor” author Amrita Pande examines the boom of surrogacy in India and the women affected by the booming commercial use of poor woman in India who carry babies for infertile l woman from all over the world as part of a new medical tourism
While watching “Half of the Sky” video extras, there were short videos of women telling their story. There were multiple stories dealing with women having too many children because that was all they were supposedly good for. A woman in a video died because she had complication during labor. She had three babies within three years prior to her death and that was not uncommon in her country. If a woman were not able to conceive a child, they would never find love, it is the Survival of the Fittest. This was causing an over population as well causing diseases in the females that were sometimes fatal. A fistula is a hole in the vaginal wall that lets feces come out of the vagina, which are caused during childbirth. These women are left by their families due to their smell and are humiliated because there is nothing to help them. There are two million women living with a fistula and only 14,000 are treated each
The bravery Nujood demonstrated opened the doors for many other child brides. The issue of underage marriage had never gained as much exposure as it had after Nujood was publicly recognized as the youngest divorcee in the world. Yemen Times, along with other journalist wanted to share Nujood’s story. As uncomfortable as it was for Nujood to replay her occurrences for the journalist, she did it for a greater purpose. To help others in a situation like
Child marriage is a global issue, transpiring in all parts of the world. Abducted from their home and family, young girls - below eighteen - are married off against their own will not only affecting the girls (mentally and physically) but the country as a whole. The organization, Too Young to Wed, says “… marrying them off at such a young age, they are putting the girls at risk and perpetuation the cycle of powerlessness and poverty.” Child marriages occurred throughout history and still an affair today due to society’s tolerance. And the number of young girls forced to wed increased and will continue to increase if society remains tolerant to this sensitive matter.
Reproductive health services have and currently do struggle against obstacles including religious beliefs, governmental policies, educational shortcomings, and governmental financial circumstances. With the increase in reproductive health medicine and technology, an increase for the global standard of living, and women’s rights movements worldwide, global access to reproductive health services is becoming more and more of a priority. Topics such as abortion and form of contraception are highly debated. “Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, with almost 86.1% of Indonesians declared Muslim according to the 2000 census. 8.7% of the population is Christian, 3% are Hindu, and 1.8% Buddhist or other”(“Demographics of Indonesia”, Wikipedia). Indonesia implemented a family planning organization known as the National Population and Family Planning Board (BkkbN), which help provide sexual and reproductive education to the citizens of Indonesia. The goal of BkkbN is “Balanced Population Growth in 2015” ("Profil | BKKBN"). Unfortunately, the HIV/AIDS “Adult prevalence rate: [is] 0.2% (2007 est)” (“Demographics of Indonesia”, Wikipedia), and children suffer from mal-nutrition… “More than 30 per cent of pre-school children are underweight” (ReliefWeb). In some of these cases, the statistics could correlate directly to unplanned parenthood. Unplanned parenthood and unavailable global access to reproductive services could increase these numbers.
UNICEF’S education programs for children serve mostly female children, mostly in developing programs. This enables the protection of the girl, from female genital mutilation: this education programs help, educate the people on the cons of this act. This is because of the belief “All children have a
The Problem Child marriage, aside from being a human rights violation in and of itself, triggers a series of rights violations that continue throughout a girl’s life. (SOURCE 1) These involve such circumstances as forced sexual experiences and sexual violence, pregnancies of an early, unplanned, and frequent nature, as well as the denial of education and the resultant lack of economic independence. SOURCE 1) It also results in several health implications, including conditions resulting from pregnancy that girls are not ready for.