Child Marriage in the United States (Essay Sample)
Read the below attached / linked article and, in no more three-pages total, respond to each of the prompts. Please include your references, either on a separate page, or at the end of your essay. Please feel free to utilize the sources provided; however, you are required to find and utilize two of your own, as well. You are required to utilize a minimum of four peer-reviewed academic sources to support or oppose your viewpoint/s. They must be current and relevant. No direct quotes. A cover page is NOT required. Please use 12-point font.
Scenario
‘You shouldn’t be doing this’: She was 16. He was 25. Should marrying a child be allowed?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/10/05/feature/child-marriage-in-the-u-s-is-surprisingly-prevalent-now-states-are-passing-laws-to-make-it-harder/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.27d82a3f8bba (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
PROMPTS:
• Utilize a combination of two or more theories in your analysis of Maria.
o Major Theories
Systems Theory
Psychodynamic Theory
Social Learning Theory
Conflict Theory
Attachment Theory
o Primary Perspectives
Strengths Based
Eco-Systems
Life Course
o Practice Models
Task Centered
Solution Focused
Cognitive / Behavioral
Narrative
• Identify & discuss her risk and protective factors
• Identify & discuss the ways in which U.S. policies have failed and or supported her
• In what ways might your responses be similar and/or different if Maria was from another country and was forced to marry young due to culture and/or immigration status
Child Marriage in the US
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Child Marriage in the US
There is a growing recognition at an international capacity that child marriage is a human rights violation that works to impediment social and economic development. Despite the extensive discontentment with the practice, 48 US states allow the marriage of minors, individuals below the age of 18, as of August 2018 (Waji, Zaleski, Lampe, Bevan, & Koski, 2019). A study published in February 2017 by the Girls Not Brides indicated that the decade between 2000 and 2010 witnessed more than 248,000 children marriages, mostly involving young girls marrying adult men. Child marriage is often linked to a wide variety of adverse health, economic, and social outcomes as such vital to analyze the processes that lead to child marriage the lived experiences of child brides in the USA. Grounded on Maria's scenario, a 16-year-old married to 25-year-old man, the paper argues child marriage is detrimental to the economic and social development of the individual and by extension the society.
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