Answer: Premature marriage is the marriage of boys and girls who have not yet reached the age of marriage. Although the government of Bangladesh has fixed 18 and 21 years for girls and boys respectively, people especially in the rural areas tend to marry their sons and daughters off earlier than the expected time. Marrying at such a premature age, boys suffer a lot because they have to work hard to run a family. On the other hand, girls suffer even more because they have to risk their lives during premature child birth. Yet the parents of sons marry them off to get dowry from the in-laws. Girls' parents are often prejudiced against education. They think that the more educated their daughters are, the more dowry they have to give. Some of them even think that girls are born to serve their in-laws. Thus the premature marriage creates a lot of problems in the society. Lack of education is one of the causes of premature marriage. Lack of moral values also causes premature marriage. The media should be active in solving premature marriage. The govt. should take pragmatic steps to remove this evil practice. Last but not the least, raising social awareness can play the key role towards curbing this evil act.
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