RE: [MTC Global] Shocking Statistic - 4.5 Million Indian Teens Were Pregnant Or Had Kids In 2015-16

Undoubtedly, Women Education is the Key to Women (and Child) Empowerment and its consequential benefits. It must be accorded highest priority while allocating resources …… Arguably, it generates highest socio-economic returns …..   

 

A study using data from 219 countries from 1970 to 2009 found that, for every one additional year of education for women of reproductive age, child mortality decreased by 9.5 per cent

 

Women bear disproportionate responsibility for unpaid care work. Women devote 1 to 3 hours more a day to housework than men; 2 to 10 times the amount of time a day to care (for children, elderly, and the sick), and 1 to 4 hours less a day to family  activities – convert all these into monetary terms and a value of few trillions dollars appears from nowhere ….

 

Increased women and girls' education attainment accounted for about 50 per cent of the economic growth in OECD countries over the past 50 years [3], of which over half is due to girls having had access to higher levels of education and achieving greater equality in the number of years spent in education between men and women 

 

Finally, overlooking all mundane considerations, educated women definitely create a far better society to live in ….

 

Kalpen

 

From: join_mtc@googlegroups.com [mailto:join_mtc@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Usha Gowri
Sent: 29 July 2017 AM 06:01
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [MTC Global] Shocking Statistic - 4.5 Million Indian Teens Were Pregnant Or Had Kids In 2015-16

 

I couldn't agree more with everything you right except for moving education further down the list. It has  to remain on the top even if it is a trickle.

Where did the guts to complain about Eve teasi g come from? And the four states you mention is a curse on this country. 

I reiterate, educating the girl child is the only way to beat these old thugs black and blue. The way to stop trafficking. The hit back has to come from the Draupadis who will be part of these societies. I am hoping from educated Draupadis.

 

On 28-Jul-2017 16:49, "Stephen Narayanan" <stepnrn@gmail.com> wrote:

My intention was not to scare away the young ones from school.... during my stint in Ministry of Textiles, I have gone around the rural sides quite a lot and also on my official tours thereafter and have seen the struggle of children....their tryst with all odds for education...no doubt the parents invest everything to give their child a better future...but where the terrain is rough and rugged...believe me it is a struggle not just for the child going to school but also for women going out to work. In cities since the law enforcement agencies are upgrading and modernizing to bring quick justice, there is still the fear of law among people coming to city for work who could either become wayward or get misguided due to bad company. Haryana, Rajasthan, U.P. & Bihar....all Northern terrain are very rough... despite the nationwide brouhaha and angst in the aftermath of Nirbhaya, daily a Nirbhaya is repeated and an unfortunate girl suffers and dies. Since it was the Capital and Metro Delhi, the police were pressurized to act and also the media breathing down on their back wanted them to crack the case.....otherwise in rural areas not even registration of a rape case takes place.

I am not denying your counter argument about skewed sex ratio...take for example a remote village in Haryana - Guhana & Kakroi village (incidentally it has the lowest female to male ratio in all India survey) - bride buying takes place. Some villages are ostracized because of the inhumanity and lustfulness...Gauhana village in Mewat District had 9,000 married women trafficked there for the men whom no family of nearby villages were ready to give their daughters. So if the sinful nature of men has brought this on themselves who are to be blamed for the same?

Perhaps I failed to mention that education is secondary....it is more important to survive then only you can undertake your studies. In a news report some time back in a village in Haryana, girls refused to go to school as they were fed up and scared of enduring the daily eveteasing by a group of boys from the locality who were getting bolder day by day... so there you are...education for them became secondary. The brides coming to these villages...bought, purchased, trafficked or kidnapped....were all from poor families and not much educated either so many could not remember their parents cell number...or the name of their village...

There is a long way to go before proper infrastructure, confidence and assurance gives the children the chance to study and get educated. The skewed ratio is their own doing especially in North...you have this KHAP ( a village Mafia ) who is a law unto their own...for them inter-caste marriage is strict No ...No....and they have extinguished many lives for the offence of falling in love and getting married. Girl child again is a problem for them and infant deaths are mostly murders which over the years left the grooms without a suitable bride. The Police knows it and so do the MLA's but they do not want to interfere with the KHAP...even the Haryana Government bowed down to them when these mafia challenged them about a year back.

Finally I would say that we all are responsible for the insecurity of our children and children of our society...with nuclear families where we have to fall back on Creche where the working mother leaves the child.. parents and their values are being confined to their homes or old age homes. So much for Education.

Stephen Narayanan

Freelance Educational Consultant/Corporate Training facilitator

Mob.:-9868386192

 

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Usha Gowri <usha.gowri@gmail.com> wrote:

A court cannot act on emotion,popular vote or public opinion however powerful it might be. Those cases where these factors affected are ones where the court had its own concerns about the police or the CBI. If the fetus is removed the proof of the man's crime is gone.For all you know she is  under pressure to say such things to remove any proof of evil doing....

 

Education is one thing but Reality of Life is another...day in and day out for females especially in rural areas, Life is a struggle...a constant danger and threat lurking all around. Incidents like this scar and leave a permanent wound on their mind. High time the Court start acting against child molesters invoking the POCSO act and giving death penalty to rapists. All the social activists, the world bodies and NGO's no doubt do their bit but it is limited only to counselling and how successful it is is yet to be ascertained.

 

so what are you saying Mr Stephen? yes what happens in the villages  is a terrible blight on all of us in the  society..But why would you connect it to Education? why rural areas? are cities any better? AS it is it is such a struggle to get the girl child to school.Should we add this scare too to the list?

Secondly most child molestation happens at home-close family members and siblings are the first culprits. 

 

 Molesters and  rape is not a one syndrome situation-the reasons run so deep and are so many in number it is just baffling and difficult to solve for anyone.For one the skewed sex ratio-in some communities it is 1000 men to a 789 women. 200 odd men have to go without marriage .Sounds ok-but to the young man it is disastrous .

I couldn't agree more with you that public punishment has to be meted out to these criminals without a second thought.We should go the Singapore way and mark  them for life  by whipping the wits out of them.

 

 

Usha K Sankar

President

Co.Re Foundation

Partner 

Tugboat Consulting and Marketing Services LLP

 

What is to be does not necessarily have to be.

 

Let go or get dragged 

 

 

 

 

 

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Stephen Narayanan <stepnrn@gmail.com> wrote:

When our so called Educated Jurist's are lenient to let off rapists on some or other excuse what good does the PM's exhortation of "Beti Padhao, Beti Bachao" slogan  hold good? Doesn't it have a hollow ring? In today's TOI, I went through a 10 year old girl who was raped by her uncle and is now 6 months pregnant has pleaded with the court that her pelvic bones would not be able to hold the baby...she deposed before none other than CJI J.S. Khehar. But our learned judges and court would wait for Medical Specialists and their views first. I wonder how insensitive people become Judges. Education is one thing but Reality of Life is another...day in and day out for females especially in rural areas, Life is a struggle...a constant danger and threat lurking all around. Incidents like this scar and leave a permanent wound on their mind. High time the Court start acting against child molesters invoking the POCSO act and giving death penalty to rapists. All the social activists, the world bodies and NGO's no doubt do their bit but it is limited only to counselling and how successful it is is yet to be ascertained.

 

Regards,

Stephen Narayanan

Freelance Educational Consultant/Corporate Training facilitator

Mob.:-9868386192

 

On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 1:48 PM, kalpen shukla <kalpenshukla@hotmail.com> wrote:

I completely agree with Usha-ji

 

The only way to resolve most of our socio-economic issues would be to Educate the Girls on priority …. Till the time women are enabled to stand independently (for entire life), it is nigh impossible to reach solutions any sooner with millennia old biases of a paternally dominant society ….

 

Kalpen ….  

 

From: join_mtc@googlegroups.com [mailto:join_mtc@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Usha Gowri
Sent: 23 July 2017 PM 12:09
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [MTC Global] Shocking Statistic - 4.5 Million Indian Teens Were Pregnant Or Had Kids In 2015-16

 

Shocking? Why ?

And interestingly half of them die in childbirth due to complications or from sheer negligence or from simple stupid infection from the cotton in the hospital.

Half of these children will not cross the age of five due to malnutrition at birth and then if they are lucky should be gone by 15 especially if they are girls.Why? because they are never fed the way boys are fed.

So at 35 she will have three children the oldest 22 and finishing engineering-we,who work in the grassroot take it in our stride...

Hence girl education and hence to keep the girl child in school so that something as mundane as menstruation doesnt make her a drop out-and hence the need to talk. 

G

 

Usha K Sankar

President

Co.Re Foundation

Partner 

Tugboat Consulting and Marketing Services LLP

 

What is to be does not necessarily have to be.

 

Let go or get dragged 

 

 

 

 

 

On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Dr. S. S. Dey <drshibshankar@gmail.com> wrote:

She is also at the risk of facing violence, abuse and exposure to HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases and is also exposed to underage motherhood as adolescents.

Adolescent pregnancy can lead to several health problems: anaemia, malaria, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, postpartum haemorrhage and mental disorders, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).

In 2011, about 3.8 million adolescent girls in India had children. Of these, 1.4 million have two or more children, even before completing adolescence, data show. But education could delay pregnancy. As many as 39 per cent of girls who were illiterate had begun child bearing, compared to 26 per cent of those who were literate, data show.

In West Bengal, for instance, in 2011, among married adolescent girls (1.35 million), aged between 10-19 years, more than 50 per cent of the girls who were illiterate had reached motherhood, compared to 37 per cent of the girls who were literate.

"Lack of education is both a risk factor and an outcome of child marriage," as highlighted by a 2014 study, and subsequently quoted by the authors of a 2015 paper titled "Child Marriage: A Critical Barrier to Girls' Schooling and Gender Equality in Education".


The number of child brides and mothers has not improved substantially from 2011. In 2015-2016, an estimated 4.5 million girls between the age of 15 and 16 years were pregnant or had already become mothers, according to data from the National Family Health Survey 4 (NFHS 4).

Becoming a child bride initiates a process for the girl where societal pressure, expectations and the responsibilities she is supposed to shoulder in her new role could make her lose focus from education and eventually drop out of school.

She is also at the risk of facing violence, abuse and exposure to HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases and is also exposed to underage motherhood as adolescents.

Adolescent pregnancy can lead to several health problems: anaemia, malaria, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, postpartum haemorrhage and mental disorders, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).

In 2011, about 3.8 million adolescent girls in India had children. Of these, 1.4 million have two or more children, even before completing adolescence, data show. But education could delay pregnancy. As many as 39 per cent of girls who were illiterate had begun child bearing, compared to 26 per cent of those who were literate, data show.

In West Bengal, for instance, in 2011, among married adolescent girls (1.35 million), aged between 10-19 years, more than 50 per cent of the girls who were illiterate had reached motherhood, compared to 37 per cent of the girls who were literate.

"Lack of education is both a risk factor and an outcome of child marriage," as highlighted by a 2014 study, and subsequently quoted by the authors of a 2015 paper titled "Child Marriage: A Critical Barrier to Girls' Schooling and Gender Equality in Education".

"Across 18 of the 20 countries with the highest prevalence of child marriage, girls with no education were up to six times more likely to marry than girls with a secondary education," the study said, using research from the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW).


Over 13 million adolescent girls between 10 and 19 years were married in India in 2011, according to census data.


The number of child brides and mothers has not improved substantially from 2011. In 2015-2016, an estimated 4.5 million girls between the age of 15 and 16 years were pregnant or had already become mothers, according to data from the National Family Health Survey 4 (NFHS 4).

Becoming a child bride initiates a process for the girl where societal pressure, expectations and the responsibilities she is supposed to shoulder in her new role could make her lose focus from education and eventually drop out of school.

She is also at the risk of facing violence, abuse and exposure to HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases and is also exposed to underage motherhood as adolescents.

Adolescent pregnancy can lead to several health problems: anaemia, malaria, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, postpartum haemorrhage and mental disorders, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).


In 2011, about 3.8 million adolescent girls in India had children. Of these, 1.4 million have two or more children, even before completing adolescence, data show. But education could delay pregnancy. As many as 39 per cent of girls who were illiterate had begun child bearing, compared to 26 per cent of those who were literate, data show.

In West Bengal, for instance, in 2011, among married adolescent girls (1.35 million), aged between 10-19 years, more than 50 per cent of the girls who were illiterate had reached motherhood, compared to 37 per cent of the girls who were literate.

"Lack of education is both a risk factor and an outcome of child marriage," as highlighted by a 2014 study, and subsequently quoted by the authors of a 2015 paper titled "Child Marriage: A Critical Barrier to Girls' Schooling and Gender Equality in Education".

"Across 18 of the 20 countries with the highest prevalence of child marriage, girls with no education were up to six times more likely to marry than girls with a secondary education," the study said, using research from the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW).

The greater the duration of a girl's education, the lower the chances of her getting married early, found a 2002 study on UP. Research suggests that education could even delay a girls' marriage beyond the legal age, according to a global analysis by ICRW.

Putting an end to child marriage "could entail a cost for households and governments assuming that some of the girls who delay marriage are also able to pursue their education further", the study noted.

Mothers who are educated, are also healthier mothers; they are better prepared for childbirth and motherhood, and are more open to accessing health care facilities and understanding the implications of their health on their children.

For instance, in 2015-2016, more mothers (63 per cent) who had completed at least secondary education had at least four antenatal visits, compared to those who had no education (28 per cent) or had completed only primary education (45 per cent), according to NFHS 4 data.

 

Source: India Times

 

Thanks and Regards,

 

Dr. S.S. Dey

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