{"id":25258,"date":"2022-06-27T23:14:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T23:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi"},"modified":"2022-06-27T23:34:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T23:34:12","slug":"parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi","title":{"rendered":"Parents forcing boys to get married\u00a0in Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare says there is a new trend in early marriages in the communities of Malawi as parents are now marrying off more boys before they turn the age of 18.<\/p>\n

Director of Child Affairs in the Ministry of Gender, McKnight Kalanda, said on the sidelines of commemorations of Day of the African Child at Chimtolo Village, Traditional Authority Khongoni in Lilongwe district, that a survey to detect how many children got married during Covid-19 showed high figures in most districts, including Lilongwe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Lilongwe what we have seen is that even boys are getting affected. There are more boys that are also being married off before the age of 18. So, this is a new trend which needs to be addressed because previously we used to talk of girls but now it is even more to boys,\u201d said Kalanda.<\/p>\n

He said there is need for collaborative efforts, especially with community-based organizations, so they integrate child protection issues in their programs to better address issues of early marriages.<\/p>\n

Executive Director for Yamba Malawi, Getrude Kabwazi, said her organization is determined to provide support and address the challenges that impede on children.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Malawi<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare says there is a new trend in early marriages in the communities of Malawi as parents are now marrying off more boys before they turn the age of 18. Director of Child Affairs in the Ministry of Gender, McKnight Kalanda, said on the sidelines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,25,8],"tags":[233,371,840,251,234,770,2274],"class_list":["post-25258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-culture-and-art","category-featured","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-children","tag-lilongwe","tag-malawi","tag-marriages","tag-ministry-of-gender"],"yoast_head":"\nParents forcing boys to get married\u00a0in Malawi - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare says there is a new trend in early marriages in the communi ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Parents forcing boys to get married\u00a0in Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare says there is a new trend in early marriages in the communi ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-27T23:14:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-27T23:34:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_8-62ba3e5b1d07b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Parents forcing boys to get married\u00a0in Malawi\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-27T23:14:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-27T23:34:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi\"},\"wordCount\":215,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_8-62ba3e5b1d07b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Children\",\"Lilongwe\",\"Malawi\",\"marriages\",\"Ministry of Gender\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"culture and art\",\"Featured\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi\",\"name\":\"Parents forcing boys to get married\u00a0in Malawi - Malawi\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_8-62ba3e5b1d07b.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-27T23:14:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-27T23:34:12+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare says there is a new trend in early marriages in the communi ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_8-62ba3e5b1d07b.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_8-62ba3e5b1d07b.jpg\",\"width\":900,\"height\":450,\"caption\":\"Parents forcing boys to get married\u00a0in Malawi\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Parents forcing boys to get married\u00a0in Malawi\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\",\"name\":\"Malawi\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Parents forcing boys to get married\u00a0in Malawi - Malawi","description":"Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare says there is a new trend in early marriages in the communi ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Parents forcing boys to get married\u00a0in Malawi","og_description":"Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare says there is a new trend in early marriages in the communi ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi","og_site_name":"Malawi","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-06-27T23:14:19+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-06-27T23:34:12+00:00","og_image":[{"width":900,"height":450,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_8-62ba3e5b1d07b.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Parents forcing boys to get married\u00a0in Malawi","datePublished":"2022-06-27T23:14:19+00:00","dateModified":"2022-06-27T23:34:12+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi"},"wordCount":215,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_8-62ba3e5b1d07b.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Malawi","Children","Lilongwe","Malawi","marriages","Ministry of Gender"],"articleSection":["all news","culture and art","Featured","homepage-english"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi","name":"Parents forcing boys to get married\u00a0in Malawi - Malawi","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_8-62ba3e5b1d07b.jpg","datePublished":"2022-06-27T23:14:19+00:00","dateModified":"2022-06-27T23:34:12+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare says there is a new trend in early marriages in the communi ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_8-62ba3e5b1d07b.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_8-62ba3e5b1d07b.jpg","width":900,"height":450,"caption":"Parents forcing boys to get married\u00a0in Malawi"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/parents-forcing-boys-to-get-married-in-malawi#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Parents forcing boys to get married\u00a0in Malawi"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/","name":"Malawi","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}