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Most researches have centred on the awareness, knowledge, prevalence, perception, utilisation, adherence, challenges, effectives and persistence of traditional family planning methods with scanty researches explicitly highlighting its influence on fertility transition in Nigeria.
For example, when girls marry as children, they tend to have children earlier, which leads them to have more children over their lifetime, whether this is their desire or not. Improving girls’ educational attainment and reducing child marriage could accelerate Nigeria’s demographic transition.
26 maj 2020 · The objectives of this paper are: ( 1 ) to clarify the state of Nigeria's reproductive health policies. (2) to examine whether these laws hinder or encourage family planning; and (3) to use this propose an agenda for action for the 21st century.
31 mar 2022 · Child marriage is a global scourge and remains prevalent in many parts of Africa particularly in Nigeria's northern region where many girls are given away in marriage without their...
1 sty 2014 · Results from the study showed that the practice of arranged marriage and beliefs that marriage brings honour to a girl and her family contributes to child marriage.
planning is the regulation and control of the rate of child birth by individuals, both married and unmarried. In developing nations like Nigeria, children are valued as they not only demonstrate the masculinity of the
All references to ‘marriage’ or ‘child brides’ include both formal marriage and informal unions in which women started living together with a partner as if married. Global estimates are based on a subset of 101 countries with comparable available
