Abstract
Early marriage and early conception is a nascent matter across the world and remains widespread problem particularly in developing countries including Bangladesh. In this study, an attempt was made to analyze comprehensively early marriage and conception of women based on findings of interviews conducted with 609 ever-married women from five slum areas under Rajshahi city, Bangladesh. The present study has tried to delineate these issues across different socio-economic conditions of the respondents. The study also revealed that education, family’s monthly income, religion are the most influential factors in determining the likelihood of early age at marriage and conception as well. Our intention has tried to raise awareness of the situation and, where necessary, to stimulate action. Findings need to be scientifically utilized in developing suitable programs addressing the case of early marriage and early conception particularly in slum areas and country as a whole. Key words: Early marriage, early conception, slum areas, cross tabulation and logistic regression analysis.
Highlights
Throughout the world, marriage is regarded as a moment of celebration and a milestone in adult life
Parents may genuinely feel that their daughter will be better off and safer with a regular male guardian, that may resulted in the early marriage of their daughters which leads to early conception
This study shows that education and monthly income are the major problems from the respondent’s point of view for the early age at marriage and early conception as well
Summary
Throughout the world, marriage is regarded as a moment of celebration and a milestone in adult life. Marriage is a universal social institution (UN, 1990) through which an adult male and an adult female generally involves in marriage relationship and acquires new social status as a husband and wife. Such an important social institution brings some numerous problem to a couple especially women, when it happens at an early age. Marriage of female children is rampant in Bangladesh, especially in slum areas, where there is a noticeable lack of back infrastructure, services and basic shelter. The average age at first marriage for female in Bangladesh is 18.7 years (BBS, 2009)
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