Girl Child Marriage in Egypt: Causes and Outcomes | ||
| المجلة المصرية للسکان وتنظيم الأسرة | ||
| Article 7, Volume 47, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 119-135 PDF (7.56 M) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mskas.2014.233933 | ||
| Author | ||
| Amany Gad* | ||
| Cairo Demographic Center | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study examines the major factors that causes the girl child marriage, and identifies the outcomes of girl child marriage with specific focus on urban rural residence using Egypt Demographic and Health Survey, 2008. This study fits six Logistic Regression Models divided into two groups each group includes three models. The first group was conducted to ascertain the impact of socio-economic characteristics that causes the girl child marriage. The second group was conducted to identify the associations between the girl child marriage and the outcome indicators. Based on the main findings derived from this study, the following are important recommendations that would help stopping child girl marriage: Enhance educational opportunities, especially, for girls through scholarships and develop a policy that encourage enrolment and retention of girls in primary and secondary education by improving quality of education and activate the role of school groups tutoring to reduce repetition and dropout, raise public awareness through building capacities of community leader to mobilize communities against girl child marriage; to encourage parents to keep their daughters in schools until they have finished their secondary schools, reduce the cost of education especially for poor families in rural areas, and raise the awareness about the dangers of child and consanguineous marriage on the health of births. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Girl Child Marriage; Residence; Logistic Regression | ||
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