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This is a list of the states and union territories of India ranked in order of number of children born for each woman. Recent surveys show that in majority of Indian states, fertility rate has fallen well below the replacement level of 2.1 and the country is fast approaching the replacement level itself. [ 1 ]
The Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare, Government of West Bengal, is responsible for the development of women and child and social welfare in the state of West Bengal. The Department of Women Development and Social Welfare works towards the protection, equity and inclusion of populations that have been historically ...
Tamil Nadu is the state with highest child marriage rates in India in 2023. Rural rates of child marriages were three times higher than urban India rates in 2009. [3] The states with highest observed marriage rates for under-18 girls in 2009, according to a Registrar General of India report, were Jharkhand (14.1%), West Bengal (13.6%), Bihar (9 ...
But in 2020, the marriage rate was down to 5.1 per 1,000 people, the data showed. The rate started to climb the next year, and by 2022, the number of marriages had reached 6.2 per capita and over ...
In 1901 there were 3.2 million fewer women than men in India, but by the 2001 Census the disparity had increased by more than a factor of 10, to 35 million. [9] This increase has been variously attributed to female infanticide , selective abortions (aided by increasing access to prenatal sex discernment procedures ), and female child neglect. [ 9 ]
Kanyashree is an initiative undertaken by the Government of West Bengal to improve the lives and status of the girls by helping low-income families with cash so that families do not force their daughters into arranged child marriages because of economic difficulties. The purpose of this initiative is to uplift girls who are from poor families ...
India’s top court has rejected a landmark petition seeking the recognition of same-sex marriage in the country, a blow for the queer community that denies tens of millions of LGBT+ couples the ...
The second peak in divorce rates occurs around the 15th to 20th year of marriage. "These relationships often have less conflict but are characterized by couples who have drifted apart," he says.