In ancient times, even in my grandmother’s generation, people, then, need a lot of labor to help farming and supporting the family. Thus it was a common phenomenon of teen marriage all over the world in that time. Nowadays, the world is changing into the M society. On the two sides of the curve point at not richness nor poorness but married youthfully or not married. When every high-developed country is worrying about the decreased rate of new-born babies and the increasing rate of aging of population, they seem to forget the other group, little couples.
These teen couples are not only in the third world but also in civilized societies. There are many factors that cause teen marriages. Many people may think that the young have no other choice left to choose because they already have had babies. However, it is not that easy to make a conclusion. Pregnancy do is a main reason leading to enter home lives but not the only one. One of my friends is engaged and will marry next year. At first, I think she must lose her mind so that she makes the stupid decision. As the matter of fact, I do not think she and her fiancé will not lead a happy marriage and they must end up in divorce. I am against teen marriage.
One time, I ran into an Indian guy in a chatting room named Omegle. After he knew I am 19 year old girl, the first question he asked me is: Are you married? When the three words popped up on the screen, what I thought was he must be a strange, but later I realized that in India, many girls are forced to get marry when they are 12 or 13. After marrying her husband, they cannot go to school anymore and they need to give up almost everything. I take pity on those poor girls and surf the internet to find some information, finding a surprising statistics. ” In India, where teenagers are sometimes forced to marry by arrangement, more than 90% of these marriages will not end in divorce.”
I start to think about if teen marriage is good. Although most of teen couples have a lot of problems like financial affair and education of themselves and their children that they need to deal with, many of them still live happily than those who own “regular” marriage or single lives. Maybe they just meet the right at younger age. Everyone has their own life to live. If they are satisfied and happy with their marriage, how we can judge and criticize them by our personal opinion. It is a dilemma to say which is right and the other is wrong.
If in the future, your teenage child tells you that he/she wants to get married, what would be your response? You can also take the financial ability of the teenagers into account whether they are suitable to get married or not. You can also compare the teenagers of your grand-mom's generation to our generation and evaluate why at that time they tend to get married a so young an age, and why people consider getting married young in our generation is a problem.
ReplyDeleteum, first, the video you provide makes me really astonished. You have jumped out the stereotype that teenagers want to marry in young age is because they have babies. I think you can keep focusing on this. But you later mention the condition in India, it makes me feel a little confused. Because I think it's hard to judge by the different condition. I mean, the teenagers/girls in India may have no choice to decide the marriage, however, America is a country which people have the freedom to choose who to be married with. So I think maybe you can keep focusing that why the girl has the freedom to fall in love with others, she still decides to become one's wife so early. I hope you can understand my commentT_T
ReplyDeleteThe topic you choose is very interesting. Especially it is not as we think before that teenagers have no choice but get married because girls are pregnant. Like the video you post, this 15-year-old girl wants to get married and even tries hard to pregnant. It is really unbelievable. What motivate these kids to get married? Hope you can have a deeper research on this special issue.
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