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When a young man matures without his biological male role model, this can result in violent reactions to stress and emotions, resistance and hate towards authority, aggression, early rates of sexual encounters, transferences of the mother's negative talk about the father, and pressured ideologies to become the breadwinner.
Analysts believe that women's inability to accumulate wealth has allowed for gender inequality to persist on the continent. According to the World Bank, 37% of women in Sub-Sahara Africa have a bank account, compared to 48% of men. [52] These percentages are even lower for women in North Africa where two-thirds of the population remains unbanked.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), 37% of girls are married before they turn eighteen, and 10% of girls are married before age fifteen. [1] Though significantly less than the rate of child marriage for girls, 6% of boys in the DRC are married before age eighteen. [1] Even though child marriage is prevalent in the DRC, it is illegal.
Umoja, a village in the grasslands of East Africa, is only for women. As The Guardian reports , the village was founded as a safe haven for female survivors of trauma, where the women can support ...
Poverty plays a role in how young child brides get married off. Young girls are often married off to reduce financial stress for families, and for the chance at gaining a profit such as a dowry. [11] When experiencing poverty, a dowry is often seen as the last chance for the rest of the family to survive. [16]
The number reduces to 257 for 20 to 24 years of women. [17] Outside of sub-Saharan Africa, Afghanistan has the second highest incidence of maternal deaths, and 32% of all deaths for girls ages 15–19 are pregnancy-related while 47% of deaths for women who were in the age range of 20-24 were also due to pregnancy complications. [8]
In societies where young women and young men are looked down upon for being teenage or single mothers and single fathers, child abandonment is more common. [12] [13] Children born out of the confines of marriage may be abandoned in a family's attempt to prevent being shamed by their community. [14]
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