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Publication: International Family Planning Perspectives
Publication Date: 01-DEC-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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In many developing countries, parents guard their unmarried daughters carefully from contact with unrelated men, fearing that they may ruin their reputation and bring shame on their family. In India, young women who form premarital relationships--sexual or not--may be beaten or forced into a...

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...swiftly arranged marriage with someone other than their chosen partner. Yet, despite these consequences, young people do enter such relationships, as the lead article in this issue of International Family Planning Perspectives shows.

Data gathered by Mallika Alexander and colleagues from youth aged 15-24 in urban slums and rural areas of Pune District, Maharashtra State, indicate that 17-24% of young men and 5-8% of young women had ever had a romantic...

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