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Can some positive factors be gained by rising girl’s marriage age limit?

Will raising a girl’s present marriage age to 21 years benefit her family life? It is prima facie an attempt to bring parity in the age of both husband and wife. The message through this rise is clear before society. Instead of pulling communities together, there was felt the need of generating proportion  between the man and the woman. The age of majority is now brought at the age of 21 years. One survey found that  20% between the age of 21 and 25 years. One important thing becomes apparent with the change now, the late marriage will necessarily facilitate a decrease in the rising population that is what is needed in the present-day political scenario prevailing in our great country. But will it enable in defeating far broader issues like death by suicide? If it enables positivity in this direction it will surely remove a big social abnormality at the present period. The recent data given by the government’s National Crime Records Bureau says that an average of 61 deaths by suicide occur every day, one every 25 minutes. Is this not a dismal scenario? Housewives accounted for 14.6% of the 1,53,052 reported deaths by suicide in the country in the year 2020. If we take into purview the number since the very year of 1997, we would be able to learn that more than 20,000 housewives have died by suicide every year. The number rose to 25,092 in the year 2009. Whether it is social reformers or women’s bodies, they always stand up to denounce such deaths on family issues or marriage related issues. However, what do thousands of women die by suicide? Will there be a sociological study to search all the complicated aspects significantly? Responses to the proposal do vary. One reacted that bachelors should take a pledge not to marry and the married ones take a pledge to leave their wives. Be independent, when peacock can give birth without the help of male peacock then Patanjali will soon find a way to let women become Kunti and give birth to sons like Karan. All should be independent. Another explains girls getting married at 18 is a loss to their educational freedom. After marriage, in most places, it becomes regressive for the girls to complete their education. So later in life, this becomes a problem for them to stand up on their feet. Education is a birthright and should apply to all. Marriage is an option but by increasing the age limit at least some positive factors for women’s empowerment can be achieved.

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