5. Video: The Cultural Tradition of Child Marriages
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/places/culture-places/beliefs-and-traditions/india_childmarriage/
6. Benefits of Later Marriage
● Further opportunity for education
● Improved health for mother, less likely to die in childbirth
● Infant Mortality Rates decrease as marriage age increases
● Planned families are healthier and more well-equipped to
care for children
● Increased economic opportunities for mothers who received
education prior to marriage/childbirth
● Lowers CBR, which is beneficial for dealing with
overpopulation (especially good for India)
9. Relation to Human Geo Concepts: Child Marriages
● Cultural traditions that make up the mindsets of
people are extremely difficult to change with simply
outside forces
● Young girls getting married results in less education
and a lower status for women, which leads to a higher
CBR and more diseases like HIV/AIDS
10. Affirmative Action
● Castes deemed “backwards” qualify for special status
and guaranteed entry into schools or workforce.
● Lower classes take positions of more-prepared higher
caste members at universities and businesses.
● This is bad. Students are fighting to be considered a
lower class than they actually are.
20. 31% of the Indian pop. is under 15!
●
○ overcrowding
○ overpopulation
○ competition
○ gap
impoverished
21. Helping India's Youth
● Youth = future
● child marriage = detrimental to the 31%
● affirmative action = detrimental to the rising 31%
Save India's youth from harmful practices and
discrimination save the future of India.
