Why we should abolish child marriage in South Sudan
By Abraham Majur Mading, Kampala, Uganda
March 20, 2016 (SSB) — In some societies child marriages are an acceptable practice. And since straying from tradition could mean exclusion from the community, the practice is passed on from generation to another; traditions are made by people and can therefore be changed by people. In these communities of ours where child marriage is practiced, girls are not valued as much as boys are.
The challenge in South Sudan communities is to change parents’ mindset and emphasize the dangers of child marriage. Girls are supposed to stay in school rather than be married off before they are of age or against their will.
People should call upon religious leaders, traditional leaders and the government of the Republic of South Sudan to keep preaching and sensitizing parents about the dangers of child marriage in the country because of wealth which is against the future of girls.
However, the great challenge remain whereby many people in South Sudan especially girls are still back from education and many more of them are trying to enrolled in the school but learning too little to prepare them for 21th. Century jobs opportunities, the most worrying aspect of the crisis of the girls education in South Sudan is inability to provide them with requirement for the development of South Sudanese societies.
Hence, in the increasingly open global economy, countries with high rate of illiteracy and gender gabs in educational realization tend to be less competitive because foreign investors seek labor that is skilled as well as in expensive education helps girls to take advantage of opportunities that could benefit them and their societies and help them to understand their legal and reproductive right.
Girls’ education system should be insightful by the government of the Republic of South Sudan to these specific needs of girls.
The author can be reached via majur20155@gmail.com
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