Suicide of two teenagers, including a victim of child marriage, in Kamyaran and Taybad
On Tuesday, April 23, a 17-year-old boy committed suicide by hanging himself in the village of Marab, Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province. Also in other news, a 15-year-old teenage girl who had recently married committed suicide by swallowing a rice pill in Taybad city, Razavi Khorasan province. The share of Iranian teenagers in annual suicides has been reported by the Forensic Medicine Organization to be more than 7 percent.
According to HRANA news agency, citing Kurdpa, on Tuesday, April 23, 1402, a teenager in Kamyaran County committed suicide and died.
His identity has been identified as Reza Marabi, 17 years old, the son of Moloud, from the village of Marab, Kamyaran, located in Kurdistan Province.
According to this report, the teenager attempted suicide by hanging himself.
Suicide of a child marriage victim in Thailand
According to ISNA, a 15-year-old teenage girl, a victim of child marriage, committed suicide by swallowing rice pills in Taybad city, Razavi Khorasan province.
According to Javad Afridoun, public relations officer for the Taibad Health and Treatment Network, the 15-year-old girl had recently gotten married.
Child marriage has been on the rise in Iran in recent years, and child rights activists say the phenomenon will have a negative impact on the health of Iranian families in the future.
The high rate of child marriage before reaching intellectual and mental maturity indicates the extent of this phenomenon in Iran. The age of marriage in Iran is determined based on “sexual maturity,” while experts say that sexual maturity is only part of the dimensions of full human maturity. Growth, awareness, education, and freedom of choice are the most basic and humane conditions for forming a family.
The physical and psychological harms caused by child marriage cause irreparable damage to the lives of girls, especially pregnancies under the age of 18, maternal mortality, depression, and sometimes suicide attempts, in addition to harms such as divorce, failure to attend school, and the persistence of the cycle of cultural and economic poverty.
According to published statistics, over 95,000 divorces involving women under the age of 19 were recorded between 2011 and 2015, with approximately 5,760 of these divorces related to marriages in which the couple was under the age of 15.
The Iranian Forensic Medicine Organization has announced that the share of Iranian teenagers in annual suicides is more than 7%.
Source: HRANA
