What is the appropriate age to embrace motherhood? Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma has an answer to this
First Published: 28th January, 2023 19:38 IST
The Assam CM's statement comes days after the Assam Cabinet had decided to book men who marry girls below 14 years of age under the POCSO Act.
What is the appropriate age for a mother to deliver a child? Well, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has an answer to this. According to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma the best age group to attain motherhood is 22-30 years.
The Assam CM’s statement comes days after the Assam Cabinet had decided to book men who marry girls below 14 years of age under the POCSO Act.
Backing his statement, Chief Minister Sarma said, “I have been saying that child marriage must be stopped, minor girls must not attain motherhood but none must have this experience at an elderly age. Even then there are also complications, because when a girl delivers a child at a minor age there are also complications, the situation is still the same when a girl delivers a child at the age of 28, 30 or 35 years.
The appropriate age to deliver a child is 22-30 years, and not more or less than that.”
The Assam cabinet on Monday decided to book men who marry girls below 14 years of age under the POCSO Act. Those who marry girls in the age group of 14-18 years will be tried under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006.
The decision was taken to curb the high rate of maternal and infant mortality in the state, whose primary cause is child marriage, Sarma had said after the cabinet meeting.
An average of 31 per cent of the marriages in the state are in the prohibited age group, the Assam Chief Minister had said.
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