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Marital and fertility decision-making: The lived experiences of adolescents and young married couples in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India

Year: 2018

Type: report

Abstract: This report presents findings from a qualitative sub-study exploring adolescent girls and young couples’ experiences of marital and fertility decision-making in two southern Indian states (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana). Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are among the top states reporting high adolescent fertility: 12 and 11 per cent of young women age 15-19 in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, respectively, were already mothers or pregnant when surveyed in 2015/16. This research was carried out as part of Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty that traced the life trajectories of 3,000 children (in two age groups) and their households located in these states, over a 15-year period. By age 18, around 30 per cent of girls in the Young Lives study had married, and 23 per cent of these married girls had also become mothers.

Source: Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)

Authors: Gina Crivello, J.G. van der Roest, Uma Vennam, Rajesh Kumar Singh, François‐Laurent De Winter

Language: English

Topic: Marriage and Family Dynamics

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: green

Funders: UNICEF, Wellcome Trust, Children's Investment Fund Foundation, University of Oxford, Department for International Development, Ministry of Education, India, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

OpenAlex ID: W3166414732

Cites: 11

Cited by: 10

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