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Shia Muslim girls studying the Quran placed atop folding lecterns during Ramadan in Qom, Iran. The topic of Islam and children includes Islamic principles of child development, the rights of children in Islam, the duties of children towards their parents, and the rights of parents over their children, both biological and foster children.
In Islam, the infant is regarded as having the same degree of affinity to the wet nurse as in consanguinity, so when the child grows up marriage is prohibited to those related to the wet nurse by the same degree as if to the child's own mother.
The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) opposes the Child Marriage Act on the grounds that it contravenes the Muslim personal law. [6] [7] According to a survey by the Integrated Child Development Scheme, of the 3,400 girls aged 13 to 18 married in Malappuram, Kerala in 2012, 2,800 were Muslims.
Several states of India claim specially high child marriage rates in their Muslim and tribal communities. [261] [262] India, with a population of over 1.2 billion, has the world's highest total number of child marriages. It is a significant social issue.
Child marriage in the U.S. is typically driven by poverty or social and cultural norms. “People need to get that out of their head that this is a Muslim issue because it’s not. It’s American ...
In Islam, marriage represents a couple's acknowledgement of their social responsibility and an agreement to abide by the marriage contract's terms and conditions. One of the conditions in the Islam marriage contract requires the verbal and written consent of both the bride and groom, as well as the female's acceptance of the male's proposal. [9]
Getting married before the age of 18 is a common part of life for girls living in Bangladesh. Currently, the country has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. An estimated 29 ...
Already, government statistics show that nearly 25 percent of marriages in Iraq involved someone under the age of 18 in 2011, up from 21 percent in 2001 and 15 percent in 1997.