{"id":721199,"date":"2021-01-07T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/2020\/12\/raising-the-age-of-marriage-a-counterproductive-proposal\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T15:31:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T10:01:19","slug":"raising-the-age-of-marriage-a-counterproductive-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/2021\/01\/raising-the-age-of-marriage-a-counterproductive-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"How Increasing Marriageable Age Might Actually Hurt Girls In India"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Priti Patkar<\/strong><\/p> Over the past 4 years, I have been working closely with many adolescents (all between the ages of 16 and 18 years). <\/i>Many of them had run away from their homes, primarily due to irreconcilable differences between them, and their parents.<\/p> Many of them left from situations of despair to hope. When the police would trace them, their first response to the police would be that they did not want to go back to their families. They would then be produced before the Child Welfare Committees (CWC, the competent authority under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015), and later by their Order, admitted into a Children’s Home.<\/p>