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It is difficult to find a good word for the system of early marriages. Their effects on the welfare of the community wholly evil. In India, some of the evils are obscured and partially mitigated by the joint-family system, for the inexperience of the parents is supplied by the older members of the family. Still, in spite of this, the system is a serious hindrance to development of the nation.
Every human being has a right to their childhood, which in some ways is the happiest and most part of their lives. But too many Indian children are robbed of their heritage. They must take up the burden of parentage they are men and women.
Early child-bearing must always be injurious to the wife and often results in serious damage to her . As a result, many Indian women are old when their European sisters are in their prime of beauty and health.
In many , the boy-husband suffers in another way. When the responsibilities of parenthood and family are thrust upon him in his adolescence, he does have time for leisure or opportunities for mental development. His education is hampered. Furthermore, because he is dependent on his family, he find it difficult to learn the blessing of independence. The European must first establish his position in life, and he will not marrying until he can support his wife and family comfortably on his own. But the Indian is a husband and father while a boy.
The inexperience of child-parents is partly responsible for the terrible extent of infant mortality in India. What can fourteen-year-old children about the care of their children? Ignorance and inexperience result too often in the quite unnecessary death of babies.
The only argument can be brought in favour of early marriages is that they tend to rapidly increase the population. But this may not be a blessing. If a country is already overpopulated, a rapid increase simply means poverty for the many. In any case, it means perpetuation of a low standard of comfort.