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Published: 17 September 2021

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Itebiye, Bernard O. "Forced And Early Marriages: Moral Failures Vs Religious Nuances." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 12, no. 17 (2016): 305. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2016.v12n17p305.

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The rights of the child all over the world are considered to be very important. But forces and early marriages have become some of the ways the rights of children are being abused. This paper aimed at shedding more light on why children are victims of forced and early marriages and the effects and consequences of such marriages on the child and the society. The analyses employed Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework. Data gathered both from the primary and secondary sources were analyzed through the hermeneutical, descriptive and analytical methods. The findings of this paper are that ea

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Atim, Grace. "Girls not brides : ending child marriage in Nigeria." Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa 6, no. 1/2 (2017): 73–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2050-4284/2017/v6n1_2a4.

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Agege, Emmanuel A., Ezekiel U. Nwose, and Stella Odjimogho. "Parental perception of girl-child early marriage amongst the Urhobos in Nigeria." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 5, no. 8 (2018): 3185. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20183049.

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Background: This study was on the parental perception of early marriage amongst the Urhobos in the Central District of Delta State. World Health Organization (2013) defined early marriage, or child marriage, as the marriage or union between two people in which one or both parties are younger than 18 years of age. The aims of this research were to assess the parents on four themes including concept of early marriage as well as perceptions on causes, consequences and strategies to mitigate the problems.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional survey adopted questionnaire that comprised 4-themes an

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Onoyase, Anna. "Causes of Child Marriage and Its Effects on the Child in Jigawa State, North West Nigeria: Implications for Counselling." Journal of Education and Training Studies 8, no. 4 (2020): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/jets.v8i4.4724.

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This research sought to find out the causes of child marriage and its effects on the child in Jigawa State, North-West Nigeria. In order to carry out this investigation, the researcher formulated two research questions and one hypothesis to guide the investigation. An instrument tagged “Causes of Child Marriage And Its Effects On The Child” (COCMAIETCQ) was constructed by the investigator to collect information from the respondents. The instrument has 21 items, 10 on the causes of child marriage and 11 on effects of child marriage. The researcher conducted a reliability test on the instrument

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Alayande, Audu, Bahijjatu Bello-Garko, Zubaida Abubakar, Hafsat Kagara, and Islamiyat A. Nuhu. "Medical Perspective of Childhood Marriage in Nigeria: Body of Evidence from 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey." Current Women s Health Reviews 15, no. 3 (2019): 188–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1573404814666181026095357.

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Background: Available data from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa indicates that 12% and 34% of girls were married at age 15years and 18years respectively. This practice of child marriage may debar countries from achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Objective: To extract and present disaggregated indices in the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) on the effect of child marriage on health. Method: This desk review study extracted disaggregated maternal and child health indices on married females aged 15-19 years from the 2013 NDHS. Results: The result showed that married f

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Nwauche, Enyinna S. "Child marriage in Nigeria: (Il)legal and (un)constitutional?" African Human Rights Law Journal 15, no. 2 (2015): 421–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1996-2096/2015/v15n2a9.

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Anozie, Miriam Chinyere, Millicent Ele, and Elizabeth Ijeamaka Anika. "The Legal, Medical and Social Implications of Child Marriage in Nigeria." International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 32, no. 2 (2018): 119–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/eby002.

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Fatusi, Adesegun O., Sunday A. Adedini, and Jacob Wale Mobolaji. "Trends and correlates of girl-child marriage in 11 West African countries: evidence from recent Demographic and Health Surveys." AAS Open Research 4 (September 1, 2021): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/aasopenres.13248.2.

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Background: West Africa historically has a high prevalence of girl-child marriage and requires substantial reduction to meet the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target of ending child marriage by 2030, but current data on progress is sparce. We aimed to determine the trend in child marriage in West Africa and assess the influence of selected socio-demographic factors. Methods: We analysed data on women aged 18-24 years from the two most recent Demographic and Health Surveys (conducted between 2006 and 2014) for 11 West African countries to determine the prevalence and trend

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Fatusi, Adesegun O., Sunday A. Adedini, and Jacob Wale Mobolaji. "Trends and correlates of girl-child marriage in 11 West African countries: evidence from recent Demographic and Health Surveys." AAS Open Research 4 (June 22, 2021): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/aasopenres.13248.1.

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Background: West Africa historically has a high prevalence of girl-child marriage and requires substantial reduction to meet the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target of ending child marriage by 2030, but current data on progress is sparce. We aimed to determine the trend in child marriage in West Africa and assess the influence of selected socio-demographic factors. Methods: We analysed data on women aged 18-24 years from the two most recent Demographic and Health Surveys (conducted between 2006 and 2014) for 11 West African countries to determine the prevalence and trend

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Amiriheobu, Frank, Victor Ordua, Ekperi Watts, and Ojobah Christian. "A CRITICAL DISCOURSE OF GIRL-CHILD MARRIAGE/SLAVERY IN SELECTED NIGERIAN FILM." International Journal of Innovative Research in Social Sciences & Strategic Management Techniques 8, no. 1 (2021): 118–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.48028/iiprds/ijirsssmt.v8.i1.10.

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Until recent past, girl-child slavery/marriage, guided by unscrupulous African culture, has posed as major practice in the Nigerian state in the 21stCentury. This cankerworm, manifesting through early marriage, money marriage, commercial sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, and other forms of abuses on the women folk, weakens women participation in economic, political, religious, and social development, thus, increases the issues of pain, suffering, sickness, and death of the people and underdevelopment to the Nigerian 5state as portrayed in Stephanie Linus Dry. Dry is a 21st century film

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