Phenomenology of the Quality of Married Life of a Married Child with the Approach of Child Abuse and Ways to Deal it

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• fatemeh Saberi ¹
• samineh bahadori jahromi ²
• Leila Saberi ³

¹ Master student of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Jahrom, Iran

² islamic azad univerisity faculty member

³ Marvdasht University faculty member

10.30495/jzvj.2023.31912.4016

Abstract

Child marriage is a socio-cultural phenomenon that affects the lives of girls in some parts of the country and leads to many personal and social problems and damages. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to investigate the marital experiences of children in marriage in women living in Shiraz city in Fars province. Purposive sampling was done through snowball method with 10 women in-depth interviews. The text of the interviews was analyzed using theoretical coding method. The findings of the research, which are the results of interviews, include causal conditions (gender stereotypes, lack of choice of spouse, lack of awareness), background conditions (lack of sexual readiness, passive agency) and intervention conditions (emotional entanglement, role weakness, interaction tension generator) that the category of marital impotence emerged as the main phenomenon. The results show that marrying at a young age makes women face powerlessness in the personal and interactive field of marital relations. Their action against the problem of powerlessness occurs in the form of concealment, divorce, adaptation and forced silence. Among its consequences, we can mention marital boredom, dissatisfaction with life, frustration, social isolation and emotional divorce.

Keywords

• Child marriage
• Child abuse
• Quality of life
• Adaptation

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