Qualitative Research EXPLORING THE PHENOMENON OF CHILD MARRIAGES IN SOUTH PUNJAB: A CASE STUDY OF THESIL RAJANPUR

Ayesha Abid, Mussarat Hussain, Arslan Asghar

Abstract

The present study explores the socio-cultural causes behind the practice of child marriage and its impact on adolescent girl's life in a certain era. Pushing factors behind this cultural trend are based on unawareness about the hazardous effect of early marriage, inflexible cultural values, rigid mentality, lack of education and influence of punchaiti decision by the practice of watta Satta and pait likhi. All these factors have a bad impact on preadolescent girl's life as psychologically torched, physically frail by miscarrying pregnancy, economical crises, socially disorder, maladjustment in spouse family and faced spousal violence. The researchers have used an interpretive scientific approach to explore the phenomena in its all sense through in-depth interviews, empirical observation and case study method. The study's outcome is that the custom of child marriage among girls is a most practiced and civilized societal act. It has a hazardous impact on young married girl in their whole life in each domain and even female is being deprived of their basic human rights in this era