ArticleCulture, health & sexuality2019
Child marriage and relationship quality in Ethiopia.
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- Turkısh women's experıences of early and forced marrıage: a meta-synthesıs study.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Pooled it
- The health consequences of child marriage: a systematic review of the evidence.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
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- Factors associated with time to first marriage among women in Somalia: a Weibull survival analysis.Reproductive health · 2026Article
- The "puberty deadline": cultural constructions of maturity, anticipated shame, and child marriage as a perceived risk-mitigation strategy in rural Niger.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2026Article
- Impact of child marriage on adolescents' health and socioeconomic development: an essay on Ethiopian perspective.The Pan African medical journal · 2025Article
- Exploring the challenges of men who married to adolescent girls in Western Iran: A qualitative study.Health science reports · 2023Article
- Spatial pattern and influential factors for early marriage: evidence from Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey 2017-18 data.BMC women's health · 2023Article
- Pregnancy coercion, correlates, and associated modern contraceptive use within a nationally representative sample of Ethiopian women.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2022Article
- Drivers and consequences of child marriage in a context of protracted displacement: a qualitative study among Syrian refugees in Egypt.BMC public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Child marriage is prevalent in Africa, with almost 40% of girls being married before age 18. Although child marriage is linked to a range of adverse outcomes, including intimate partner violence, little is known about the quality of these marriages in terms of the levels of communication, trust, equality, intimacy, conflict, marital satisfaction or happiness. We used both quantitative and qualitative data to examine how exact age at first marriage influenced multiple domains of relationship quality in Ethiopia. Our analysis was based on household survey data from 3396 currently married or recently divorced women aged 18-45, 32 in-depth interviews and 8 participatory focus groups in two regions. The regression results show a strong negative effect of marriage at or before age 12 on relationship quality across multiple domains. The qualitative data suggest a more pervasive effect on marital quality, with the lack of ability to choose whom they married and reduced agency emerging as particularly important factors influencing marital quality. This relationship may be direct or indirect, potentially mediated by factors such as intimate partner violence. Interventions intending to mitigate the effects of child marriage should include components that aim to improve the quality of spousal relationships, particularly in terms of communication and negotiation skills.
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