Sentences with phrase «child marriages in»

Plan International supported ICRW to facilitate a workshop and redevelop a program model and program document for 18 +: Ending Child Marriages in Southern Africa, Plan's sub-regional program that aims to reduce child marriages in four participating countries of Southern Africa, namely Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The increase in teenage pregnancies in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region has become a major concern apart from the incidence of child marriages in the district.

The prevalence rate of child marriages in Ghana ranges between 12.2 and 39.2 per cent, with the Upper East Region having the highest percentage of 39.2 per cent.

According to UNICEF, the Upper West Region is second in child marriages in Ghana after the Upper East Region.

Ghana has one of the highest cases of child marriages in the world.

The government estimates that child marriages in rural areas are three times higher than in urban centres.

«It's a positive step in the right direction but there's a heck of a long way to go for changing the culture around child marriage in India.»

«The child protection laws already prohibit an adult having sex with someone below the age of 18, but this new law actually recognises there's a lot of child marriage in India and wanting to make that unacceptable.

Africa has the highest rates of child marriage in the world, following only Asia.

Recognizing the significant difference that this could make in and to our nation, Ghana has launched a campaign, under the auspices of UNICEF, to end child marriage in our nation by focusing not only on getting young girls in school but also on keeping them there their education is complete.

Cuomo signed legislation putting an end to child marriage in New York.

«This is a major step forward in our efforts to protect children and prevent forced marriages, and I am proud to sign this legislation that puts an end to child marriage in New York once and for all.»

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed legislation putting an end to child marriage in New York.

2nd Child marriage in 24 years.

A new report examining the impact of child marriage in Ethiopia has highlighted the many devastating impacts it has on individuals and society.

For both NGO and governmental clients, SCL analysts developed programs to increase condom use across the Caribbean, improve the effectiveness of tsunami warnings delivered by text message, and guide a Unicef project to discourage child marriage in South Sudan.

-- Not married to a child marriage ban: After a lot of back and forth over provisions of a ban on child marriage in Florida, the Senate yesterday amended its bill to allow 17 - year - olds to marry, as long as their partner is no more than two years older.

Not exact matches

Unless you're living in a society with arranged marriages, however, this is much more about your children's choices than anything you can do for them as a parent.

We see this every day: broken marriages, strained parent - child relationships, deteriorating communication in the workplace.

«Electing for a long repayment cycle can set you up for debt drag that eclipses other important milestones in life such as buying a home, preparing for retirement and saving for marriage and children.»

Success, to them, comes from a good marriage and pride in their children.

They bought 2.07 million new homes in total, a 7 percent jump from 2016, and a big reason for this is that the oldest members of the millennial generation have started looking for houses as they exchange student loan debt for marriages and children.

The two are parents to three children, Antonia, 12, Gino, 10, and Joey, 7, and constantly show how much hard work pays off, both in a marriage, a friendship, and in their careers.

Increasingly, too, they're facing delays in some key landmarks of adulthood, from marriage and children to a stable career, according to industry and government reports.

There are worrying social impacts downstream as a result of these factors: a lowered marriage rate, more adult children cohabiting with their parents, a reduction in the birthrate, and young people holding off on major life events such as starting relationships or home ownership.

And while people were much more likely to «mate for life» in the past, today a sizable share have children with more than one partner — sometimes within marriage, and sometimes outside of it.

With the mean time from funding to exit for a startup increasing from 2 - 5 years in the early 2000s to an average of 6 - 10 years today, an employee may hold illiquid stock for quite some time while undergoing major life events such as marriage, birth of a child, home purchase, or graduate education.

My parents are of different Christian denominations and when they wanted to get married, neither of the churches would perform the ceremony as inter-denominational marriages were considered to be «doomed to failure» — especially as neither of them would agree to raise their children in one or the other's church.

In contract law, there must be 2 consenting parties to the contract of marriage, so pedophiles could never marry children incapable of consenting.

In its intrinsic supernatural reality, marriage includes three goods: the good of exclusive, personal, reciprocal fidelity (the bonum fidei), the good of welcoming children and educating them to know God (the bonum prolis), and the good of the indissolubility or indestructibility of the bond, the permanent foundation of which is the indissoluble union of Christ and the Church, which is sacramentally represented by the marriage (the bonum sacramenti).

Through the 1950s, however, all Christians of whatever stripe held to what Wilcox calls «the ideology of familism» that invested marriage, childbearing, and the household with sacredness, and in which, at least since the Industrial Revolution, men were the chief economic providers while the domestic sphere and the welfare of the children were chiefly the domain of women.

Thus our laws against incest, bigamy and child marriage reflect the belief that marriage, as defined by the State, is to be judged in terms of another and higher standard.

Thus Sullivan notes that the existence of gay marriage would be an «unqualified social good» for homosexuals in providing role models for children coming to terms with their sexuality.

In outlining the judicial decisions leading to same - sex marriage, Reilly demonstrates how the invocation of privacy law to protect gay sex quickly obscured the moral dignity of persons, especially children.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

One of the first instructions to man was to «Be fruitful and multiply» Jesus touches on the concept of avoiding marriage in order to serve the Kingdom of God, which is what He did; Jesus never married and had no children, and He is our example.

To put it bluntly, the notion of consent is arguably meaningless by itself as the arbiter of legitimate sexual and marital relationships because of the potential for manipulation, coercion, and abuse in a situation where there are deep - rooted and unequal social power relations (e.g., the President of the United States [not] having sexual relations with a besotted young intern or, as here, a parent and an adult child contracting a marriage).

According to its own statistics, the past decade alone has seen staggering drops in confirmations (down 32 %), child baptisms (down 36 %), adult baptisms (down 40 %), and marriages (down 41 %).

«We need to regain confidence in marriage, and we need to be telling our children «Hey, what are you doing?

If you raise your children in the right kind of environment and teach them to respect themselves and marriage then yes I believe she will be with only one man.

She has a moral obligation to avoid sexual relations outside of marriage, but she also has the obligation not to thrust her children (and also a man she loves, perhaps in a misguided manner) into despair and misery.

They created or enabled the Permissive Society that shattered millennia - old values leading to the decline of marriage, a level of narcotics - abuse never seen before in a developed country, an epidemic of sexually - transmitted diseases and the industrial - scale production of bastard children.

The research by the Marriage Foundation found in the north - east of England and Wales, nearly 60 per cent of children were born to parents who were not married.

So, in summary, marriage, which is primarily for having children, is a good, because offspring, faith, and sacrament are goods.

The way he situates marriage alongside virginity is, to my modern eyes, certainly sobering; it's unromanticized, as it is made clear that the chief purpose of marriage is the begetting of children, and that is, in a certain sense, inferior to virginity.

Also, children are brought up to believe that they should not expect equal partnership in marriage either.

Other writers have described other causes: the lobbying for same - sex marriage, the feminists» push for liberation from marriage duties, their legislative victories in getting states to adopt unilateral divorce, the culture's glorification of single moms, and the financial incentives for illegitimacy and divorce that flow from the welfare, child support, and domestic violence bureaucracies.

Ragansteve, And in those hundred years, we have seen women obtain the vote, the end of child labor, the end of Jim Crow laws, civil rights for blacks, the end of segregation, the end of the prohibition of mixed race marriages, and the list goes on and on.

They are happy in the lifestyle they have choosen and they all depend on eachother and no one was forced into anything... if they are happy and aren't bothering anyone... let them be... Warren Jeffs and the other fruits that force CHILDREN and other adults into marriages... that's a different story... but they are happy... they aren't hurting anyone let them be... I would never get into a poligamist marriage... but thats just me!!

If they are all adult and do not engage in the act of marrying children, and if plural marriage works for them and make thems happy, what possible difference does it make to anyone else?