Ethical Criticisms to Minors’ Marriage from the Perspective of the Individual and Social Life’s Principles
Akhlāq-i zīstī i.e., Bioethics Journal,
Vol. 10 No. 1 (1399),
28 June 2020
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Page 311-322
https://doi.org/10.22037/bioeth.v10i1.31611
Abstract
Background and Aim: As one of the essential pillars of the family system, marriage possesses a significant position in the Islamic verdicts and teachings. In the same line, minors’ marriage contract is one of the different aspects of marriage contract and it has been opposed and defended by many persons. However, the primary goal of this research is ethical criticism of minors’ marriage which will be explored from various sexual, physical, individual and social aspects. The question that can be asked is that what are the most important ethical criticisms that can be imposed onto the minors’ marriage from the perspective of the ethical principles of the individual and social life?
Materials and Methods: The study is a descriptive-analytical research and legal texts, articles and books, documents, hadiths and holy Quran’s ĀYĀT have been used as the sources of information gathering.
Findings: Because of creating full-scale obligations and difficulties for minors, their marriage contracts cannot be signed in adherence to the ethical principles. Moreover, due to the violation of some of the marriage conditions, including the minors’ lack of recognition and awareness about marital life, insufficient ability for selecting the fitting spouses, not having a proper plan for rearing children and difficulty in becoming obedient to the husband, such a marriage contract breaches the ethical principles hence not absolutely defendable.
Conclusion: Teaching the women and girls as well as the society as a whole about the physical, psychological and mental consequences of the minors’ marriage can clarify the detrimental and unethical outcomes of the minors’ marriage. Furthermore, we are in need of new regulations that can defend the rights of the girls and children who enter marriage contracts under the family’s coercion or their own unawareness. Prohibition of the minors’ marriage can prevent some of the sexual misuses of the children and consideration of these issues should actually lead to the observance of the individual and social ethical principles.
Please cite this article as: Zamani R, Saberian A, Rouhani Maghaddam M. Ethical Criticisms to Minors’ Marriage from the Perspective of the Individual and Social Life’s Principles. Bioethics Journal, Special Issue on Bioethics and Citizenship Rights 2020; 311-322.
- Ethics; Marriage Contract; Minors’ Marriage; Individual and Social Life
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