Should we care: a qualitative exploration of the factors that influence the decision of early marriage among young men in urban slums of Bangladesh.

33 34 Respondents in the study showed a clear trend in thinking of peer support as a strong backup system in making decisions about marriages.

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A handful of recent researches indicate that in urban slums in Bangladesh, there is an increasing trend for young men to marry before legal age of marriage. 18 Keeping this rising but mostly unaddressed issue of ECM of young men in general, and in urban low-income/slum context in Bangladesh, this paper aims at understanding the factors influencing and contributing to the causes of early marriage among young men, and what implications does this have on the discourse as well as interventions related to early marriage prevention strategy for all stakeholders.

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