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The Issue Of Arranged Marriages

 

However, in some rural areas in Ghana, the youth have their dreams shattered by their parents because the parents rather feel as though it is their right or obligation to find a partner they deem suitable for their son or daughter. Unfortunately, the children have no say whatsoever. They have to go by what their section of society calls "customs and norms" or else they will be seen as rude and rebellious, not showing respect to their parents and older family members, and not honoring the wishes of their tribe. .
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             It is rather disappointing how these young ones are brainwashed into such wrong analogies because arranged marriages come with so many internal personal and family issues. Females are the ones who suffer majority of the problems that arranged marriages brew up; for example, a survey was conducted in Ghana by National Council on Women and Development and it was concluded in its findings that girls marry at an earlier age than boys and that parents were more likely to decide and choose partners for the girl-child than the boy-child. Thirty percent of the females reported that their parents chose their partners for them as compared to sixteen percent of the males (Ghana NGO Coalition on the Rights of the Child (GNCRC). May 2005. The Ghana NGO Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Implementation of the Convention of the Rights of the Child by the Republic of Ghana. ). Furthermore, an NGO called the Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development, which seeks to promote women's sexual and reproductive health and human rights in Africa, also conducted a survey on selected gender and reproductive health issues including forced marriages.


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