Sociocultural factors perpetuating the practices of early marriage and childbirth in Sylhet District, Bangladesh
| Autor: | Abdullah H Baqui, Salahuddin Ahmed, Shams El Arifeen, Emma K. Williams, Peter J. Winch, Nicholas B. Lehnertz, Syed Moshfiqur Rahman, Ashraful Alam, Nabeel Ashraf Ali, Elizabeth G. Henry |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Health (social science) Social stigma Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Population Culture Decision Making Social Stigma Shame Fertility Young Adult Pregnancy Child marriage Childbirth Medicine Wife Humans Family Marriage Socioeconomics education Contraception Behavior media_common education.field_of_study Bangladesh Family Characteristics business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Infant General Medicine Contraception Family planning Family medicine Family Planning Services Infertility Female business |
| Zdroj: | International health. 7(3) |
| ISSN: | 1876-3405 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND: The practice of adolescent marriage continues in communities throughout Bangladesh with adolescent childbearing a common result. This early childbearing is associated with increased medical risks for both mothers and their newborns. METHODS: Because of the need to understand the persistence of these behaviors in spite of the risks various qualitative research methods were used to identify and better understand the various socio cultural factors perpetuating the practices of early marriage and childbirth. RESULTS: Delaying the first birth after marriage can cause rumors of infertility bring shame on the family and in some cases lead the husbands family to seek another wife for their son. In addition social stigma for childless women emigration of husbands and the belief that using modern contraceptives prior to the birth of the first child results in infertility also inhibits couples from delaying their first pregnancy. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: Future efforts to promote delay in marriage and subsequent early childbearing should focus on allaying the fears of infertility related to delay in childbearing or secondary to contraceptive use both for newly married couples and household decision-makers such as mothers-in-law. (c) The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. All rights reserved. For permissions please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com. |
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