TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Impact of Poverty and Education on Female Child Marriage in Afghanistan Evidence from 2015 Afghanistan Demographic and Health Survey
TT  - Yoksulluk ve Eğitimin Afganistan'da Kadın Çocuk Evliliği Üzerindeki Etkisi 2015 Afganistan Nüfus ve Sağlık Araştırmasından Elde Edilen Kanıtlar
AU  - Ghafoori, Noorulhaq
AU  - Ehsan, Hamayon
AU  - Akrami, Sayed Osman
PY  - 2021
DA  - June
Y2  - 2021
DO  - 10.52835/19maysbd.897102
JF  - 19 Mayıs Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
JO  - 19maysbd
PB  - ÇANAKKALE EDUCATION, SCIENCE, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS ASSOCIATION
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2717-736X
SP  - 418
EP  - 431
VL  - 2
IS  - 2
LA  - en
AB  - Female children as a vulnerable part of Afghan society extremely influencing by the lack of education facilities and poverty. Child marriage as a human right violation, destroying the child’s future and affecting the health of society. Despite; implementation of several programs in the level of nation and international to decrease the female child marriage, still Afghanistan has the highest female child marriage in the region. In this research, the data from 2015 Afghanistan Demographic and Health Survey (2015AfDHS) has extracted to gauge the impact of poverty and education on female child marriage in Afghanistan. To examine the effect of poverty and education on female child marriage binary logistic regression was applied. The result shows, poverty and education strongly influencing the female child marriage. Girls who live in poor households 1.18 times more likely to marry and who ever not attended to school 1.16 times more likely to marry in the age of 10-19 years. Similarly; female child illiteracy, living in rural area, ethnicity and region also significantly increasing the female child marriage in Afghanistan. In conclusion, poverty is directly affecting the household status and increasing the female child marriage in Afghanistan. By creating the job opportunities to job seekers, improving the households condition and providing the equal accessible qualified education facilities to all female children the probability of female child marriage significantly will decrease.
KW  - education
KW  - poverty
KW  - female child marriage
N2  - Female children as a vulnerable part of Afghan society extremely influencing by the lack of education facilities and poverty. Child marriage as a human right violation, destroying the child’s future and affecting the health of society. Despite; implementation of several programs in the level of nation and international to decrease the female child marriage, still Afghanistan has the highest female child marriage in the region. In this research, the data from 2015 Afghanistan Demographic and Health Survey (2015AfDHS) has extracted to gauge the impact of poverty and education on female child marriage in Afghanistan. To examine the effect of poverty and education on female child marriage binary logistic regression was applied. The result shows, poverty and education strongly influencing the female child marriage. Girls who live in poor households 1.18 times more likely to marry and who ever not attended to school 1.16 times more likely to marry in the age of 10-19 years. Similarly; female child illiteracy, living in rural area, ethnicity and region also significantly increasing the female child marriage in Afghanistan. In conclusion, poverty is directly affecting the household status and increasing the female child marriage in Afghanistan. By creating the job opportunities to job seekers, improving the households condition and providing the equal accessible qualified education facilities to all female children the probability of female child marriage significantly will decrease.
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.52835/19maysbd.897102
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/1639381
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