Abstract
Legalities of child marriage in Nigeria: Implications on health and strategies of prevention
Highlights
At the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995, factors inhibiting the realisation of women’s potentials including their health were addressed
Child marriage is recognised as one of the social malaise that needed to be eradicated to improve the quality of life of the girl child in the pursuit of sustainable development [1,2]
It is pertinent to note from statistics presented by the former Central Bank Governor, Lamido, that in the part of Nigeria where Wasila comes from, as many as 93% of girls are being denied access to secondary education and up to 70% of women in the twenties (i.e., 20 - 29years old) are unable to read
Summary
At the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995, factors inhibiting the realisation of women’s potentials including their health were addressed. There has been research reports from ‘Anti-Slavery International’ on child marriage, and ‘Save the Children’ on early marriage [3]. Nigeria is said to hold the world’s record with the highest number of children out of school. The statistics as at 2013 indicated that only 12 countries had estimated 28.5 million children out-of-school and that this accounted for 47% of kids out of school population in the world. Among the twelve countries Nigeria ranked number one with over 10.5 children out of school [4].
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