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Conduct a seminar on child marriages and foeticide.

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Child marriages can also be defined as ''any marriage carried out under the age of 18 years and involves the girl who is physically, psychologically, mentally and physiologically immature''.
Causes of Child marriages:
(1) Poverty in the families due to unemployment.
(2) Illiteracy among people.
(3) Ignorance of consequences of child marriages.
(4) Strong superstitions among people about child marriages .
(5) Religious and traditions are also responsible for occurance of child marriages.
Steps to prevent child marriages:
(1) By creating awareness amoung the people about the ill effects of child marriages.
(2) By educating the people especially in rural areas of backward districts.
(3) By providing employment opprtunities to all the people.
(4) Performing live plays, skits and stage shows to create enlightment among the rural illiterate women about the pathetic future of kids who are forced to get married.
Foeticide :
(1) Foeticide is the illegal practice of killing a foetus. Female foeticide is prevalent in our country as a major social evil.
(2) Some kinds of complications in pregnancy can also demand surgical termination of pregnancy after 8 weeks of conception.
(3) This is where the abortion is legal and doctors may have to suggest for discontinous of pregnancy for the sake of health of the mother . However the technique of surgical termination is misused by some people by getting rid of the unborn child.
(4) Abortion of foetus is an act of murder. God is the author of life and nobody should have right to take it.
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