Understanding teen sex in Bangladesh: Results from Global School Health Survey 2014

Murshid, Nadine Shaanta; Irish, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105619

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“…With growing access to the internet and social media, Bangladeshi communities are heavily in uenced by western cultures. As such, a signi cant change has been noticed among school-going girls, including premarital sexual relationships [77][78][79]. Sexual relationships outside marriage are strictly prohibited in Islam and may put a girl in an extremely vulnerable situation [80].…”

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Spatial pattern and influential factors for early marriage: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey Data 2017-18

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Khan

Hanifi

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Background Early marriage is highly prevalent in Bangladesh. It is linked with a range of adverse outcomes, including maternal and child mortality. However, research on regional variations and factors associated with early marriage is scarce in Bangladesh. This study aimed to explore the geographical variations and predictors of early marriage in Bangladesh. Methods Data of women aged 20–24 in the 2017-18 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey were analysed. The occurrence of early marriage was the outcome variable. Explanatory variables were several individual-, household- and community-level factors. Geographical hot spots and cold spots of early marriage were first determined using Global Moran’s I statistic. Multilevel mixed-effect Poisson regression was used to determine the association of early marriage with individual-, household-, and community-level factors. Results Almost 59% of women aged 20–24 reported they were married before reached18. The hotspots of early marriage were mainly concentrated in Rajshahi, Rangpur and Barishal, and the cold spots were in Sylhet and Chattogram divisions. The prevalence of early marriage was lower among higher educated (adjusted prevalence ratio (aPR): 0.45; 95% CI: 0.40, 0.52), and non-Muslim women (aPR: 0.89; 95% CI: 0.79, 0.99) than their counterparts. Higher community-level poverty was significantly associated with early marriage (aPR, 1.16; 95% CI: 1.04, 1.29). Conclusion Early marriage is highly prevalent in Bangladesh. Promoting girls’ education, awareness-building programs about the adverse effects of early marriage and proper application of the child marriage restraint act, particularly in disadvantaged communities are recommended.

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Spatial pattern and influential factors for early marriage: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey Data 2017-18

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“…We considered a range of covariates to adjust the association between premarital sex and child marriage. We first created a list of relevant variables by reviewing the available literature on child marriage in Bangladesh and neighbouring LMICs and then checked the availability of those variables in the BDHS (Chowdhury, 2004; Fattah & Camellia, 2022; Henry et al, 2015; Hossen & Quddus, 2021; Kamal et al, 2015; Majumdar, 2018; Martin et al, 2001; Melesse et al, 2021; Mokhtari et al, 2022; Murshid & Irish, 2020; Saleheen et al, 2021; Seff et al, 2021; Smith-Greenaway et al, 2021). The listed variables that were available in the BDHS were finally selected as covariates.…”

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“…Contrarily, in Sub-Saharan Africa, approximately 54% of girls and 43% of boys had premarital sex before the age of 18 (Melesse et al, 2021). In Bangladesh, One out of ten school going adolescents were engaged in the premarital sexual intercourses in Bangladesh (Murshid & Irish, 2020) and its more prevalence among university students (30%) (2021).…”

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Premarital sex and its association with child marriage among ever-married women: a study of national representative survey

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Khan

Hanifi

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Background: Sexual engagement before marriage (premarital sex) can influence child marriage; however, the evidence is scarce in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including Bangladesh. This study aimed to explore the association between premarital sex and child marriage among ever-married women aged 15-24 years. Methods: We analysed data of ever-married women aged 15-24 years after extracting from the 2017/18 Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey (BDHS). Premarital sex (yes, no) was the primary exposure in this study, and child marriage was the outcome variable. Multilevel mixed-effect logistic regression models were used to determine the extent to which premarital sex influences the occurrence of child marriage. Results: The prevalence of premarital sex and child marriage was 27% and 76.6%, respectively. Ever-married women who experienced child marriage had higher odds of reporting that they had engaged in premarital sex (aOR: 2.68; 95% CI: 2.20-3.26). The odds of premarital sex for women who experienced child marriage were higher in both urban (aOR: 2.67; 95% CI: 1.88-3.80) and rural areas (aOR: 2.69; 95% CI: 2.11-3.43). Child marriage was more common among women of relatively poor households who had premarital sex than those from other wealth quintiles. Conclusion: Premarital sex significantly impacts girls' child marriage in Bangladesh, and it varies greatly depending on the household's socioeconomic status. Expanding existing school and community-based programmes aimed at reducing girls' child marriage, abstinence from early premarital-sexual intercourse and context-specific multi-component interventions for at-risk young people may reduce these practices.

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“…This quote acts as a reminder that heterosexual sex is a location of discontent for many women. Unpleasurable sex may not rise to the level of a crime, but there is a veneer of coercion that such sex contains, stemming from relational pressure on women to perform, even minimally, in the bedroom (Murshid & Irish, 2020). Indeed, "bad sex" is a political issue that speaks to who is deserving of pleasure and who is not, embedded in structural inequalities (Cahill, 2016).…”

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“…Feminists who view rape as only a product of violence and power decry the potential for the conflation of sex and rape that may happen in Gavey's reading (Karlsson, 2019). However, in a global culture of patriarchy, many young girls learn about sexual violence before they learn about sex, which means that the two are intimately connected in the embodied experiences of girls, whether or not feminists approve of it (Murshid & Irish, 2020). As scholars, it is imperative that we talk about the line between (pleasurable) sex and sexual violence, and the gray area that takes up much of that line that constitutes unjust sex.…”

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What We Think When We Think About (Interpersonal) Violence: Understanding Knowledge Production

Murshid

2022

Violence Against Women

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Amid growing consensus that violence against women is structurally produced, neoliberalism produces an individualist understanding of violence that blames women while simultaneously framing it as personal failings of men, obscuring the link between the structural and the personal. Using examples from federal grant funding opportunities in the United States, activism in Bangladesh, and data from qualitative research, I analyze how such individual readings of violence get produced–reproduced. I call for radical responsibility to produce equitable and just research that serves the communities that we study, not just the interests of grant funders and the neoliberal university.

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Understanding teen sex in Bangladesh: Results from Global School Health Survey 2014

Cited by 7 publications

References 49 publications

Spatial pattern and influential factors for early marriage: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey Data 2017-18

Spatial pattern and influential factors for early marriage: Evidence from Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey Data 2017-18

Premarital sex and its association with child marriage among ever-married women: a study of national representative survey

What We Think When We Think About (Interpersonal) Violence: Understanding Knowledge Production

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