Child marriage is on the rise in villages across Nepal, activists say:
Nepal’s government is moving forward with a campaign to combat the practice, but serious challenges loom, activists say. In rural areas, for instance, some local elected officials who publicly oppose the practice still marry off their children as teenagers. In addition, literacy rates are low, while mobile phones and social media have made itFurther, some villagers see the practice as economically necessary, according to the Times.
With villages devoid of men, “families need girls to take care of the elderly and handle household activities,” said Tarak Dhital, an activist in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital. Girls are often taken out of school once they start to menstruate, a sign to some families that they are ready for marriage. “It is so hard to change people’s thinking,” said Ram Bahadur Chand, an official with Nepal’s child welfare board. “They do not see that child marriage destroys their futures. It is a kind of violence.”
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