What does the American public know about child marriage?
What does the American public know about child marriage?
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0238346
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发表时间：
2020
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Schaffnit SB
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文献类型：
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作者：
Lawson DW;Lynes R;Morris A;Schaffnit SB
全球消除“童婚”（18岁以下）的努力越来越多地将政府、私营部门和公众作为变革的推动者。然而，对童婚的理解可能会受到普遍误解的影响，特别是因为“儿童”一词所暗示的年龄界限模糊不清，而且因为提高认识运动经常强调非常年轻的女孩被迫嫁给年龄大得多的男子的极端情况。在这里，我们通过在线调查确定公众对童婚的了解。一半的受访者错误地认为童婚的截止年龄小于18岁，近四分之三的人错误地认为大多数童婚发生在15岁或以下（主要发生在青春期后期）。大多数参与者还错误地认为童婚在整个美国都是非法的（只有4/50的州是非法的），大大高估了其全球流行率，并错误地认为它主要发生在穆斯林占多数的世界地区。我们的研究结果强调了对童婚的重要流行误解，这些误解最终可能会破坏全球健康目标并使有害的陈规定型观念永久化。寻求通过减少童婚来增强妇女权能的组织应该警惕这些误解，并警惕自己的活动可能导致错误信息。
Global efforts to eradicate ‘child marriage’ (<18 years) increasingly target governments, the private sector and the general public as agents of change. However, understanding of child marriage may be subject to popular misconceptions, particularly because of ambiguity in the age threshold implied by the term ‘child’, and because awareness campaigns routinely emphasize extreme scenarios of very young girls forcibly married to much older men. Here, we ascertain public knowledge of child marriage via an online survey. Half of those surveyed mistakenly believed that the cut-off for child marriage is younger than the threshold of 18 years, and nearly three-quarters incorrectly believed that most child marriages occur at 15 years or below (it primarily occurs in later adolescence). Most participants also incorrectly believed that child marriage is illegal throughout the USA (it’s illegal in only 4/50 states), substantially overestimated its global prevalence, and mistakenly believed that it primarily takes place among Muslim-majority world regions. Our results highlight important popular misconceptions of child marriage that may ultimately undermine global health goals and perpetuate harmful stereotypes. Organizations seeking to empower women by reducing child marriage should be cautious of these misunderstandings, and wary of the potential for their own activities to seed misinformation.
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