The April contest #2 by the sduttaskitchen|Child marriages!

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There is an unlawful act that might seem lawful in the eyes of certain groups of people. This is giving out their children especially young girls for early marriage. The funny thing is this girl might be underage of 7 years upwards. To make the matter worse in some localities, the proposed husband can be the age as their grandfather or even great grandfather. This issue is a matter arising, so let's talk about it.

For me, I publicly and privately disapprove of child or early age marriage. This type of marriage doesn't make sense to me at all. For instance, how can a girl of 9 years old getting married to 61 years old? The age gap should tell you that this marriage is more than an improper fraction. The fact about this marriage is that it is done without the child consent making it a forced child marriage. The child in question will have to face things that he or she shouldn't face at that age. So, I strongly oppose such marriage.

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Before a child is being released because of marriage sake, let the parents consider the factors below

• Does the child approve this decision: Most child marriage are done without the child approval making it forced. So, before a parent send out a child by virtue of marriage, they should consider if the child support it.
• Is the child ready to face the marriage squarely: In a marital life, there are different aspects to be worked on. So, a factor to be consider is that if the child is matured enough to handle it squarely?

In the issue of child trafficking, here are a few ways to reduce it:

• Educate the child about any nature of child trafficking and how to avoid it.
• Make the internet space of the child is not toxic and carefully filtered to avoid any incident.
• Support the anti trafficking organizations to help curb its effects.

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Proper education plays a key role in making sure that this unlawful act is strongly opposed. With education, the parents will understand that the child is a child that needs growth instead of extra responsibilities. Another sense of reasoning is that the child is not matured physically, mentally or in other aspects to handle the affairs of marriage. So, this unlawful act called child marriage will be greatly reduced if proper education is emphasized.

I invite @bossj23, @alexanderpeace and @mile16 to this contest.