TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bahgam, S.
AU  - Mukhatari, W.
ED  - Medical Mondiale Afghanistan.
TI  - Study of child marriage in Afghanistan / S. Bahgam, W. Mukhatari
U1  - Pamphlet  HQ 784 .C55 .B34 /2004  
CY  - [Kabul : Medical Mondiale Afghanistan], 2004.
KW  - Child marriage – Afghanistan
KW  - Children's rights – Afghanistan.
KW  - Children – Afghanistan.
KW  - Child care – Law and legislation – Afghanistan
KW  - Children – Afghanistan – Social conditions
N1  - Cover title; “May 2004”; “Medical Mondiale”—cover page; Contents: Executive summary—1. Introduction—2. Methodology—3. Results and discussion—4. Child marriage and law—5. Further discussion of the effects of child marriage in Afghanistan—6. Summary of findings—7. Recommendations—About the authors—Table; Summary: “Child marriage has long been practiced in Afghanistan and justified by certain interpretations of Islamic texts and tradition. there is very little data on the problem, but work undertaken by medica mondiale e.V. (mm) suggest that child marriage appears more common that even our data currently shows. A random sample of educated people in Herat for example showed 28.5 per cent of respondents married before the age of 16 years. In order for accurate information to be available in the future there is a need for registering of all marriages, and for exact record keeping by institutions such as hospitals and schools…”—(p. 2)
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/azu_acku_pamphlet_hq784_c55_b34_2004
ER  -