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Child marriage is one of the vital problems for the socioeconomic development of Bangladesh. This problem was in the past and is still there. At present Bangladesh is the fifth highest rate of child marriage in the world while 18 percent of girls are married before age of 15 and 52 percent before age of 18. Bangladesh child marriage restraint act set up the minimum age of marriage is 18 years for women and 21 years for men. According to the present act, child marriage is illegal in Bangladesh. Although Bangladesh government took several initiatives against child marriage, the rate of child marriage has not been decreased at the satisfactory level. Now child marriage is significantly affecting the different socioeconomic aspects and hampering the national development of Bangladesh. The objectives of this study are to identify the major socioeconomic aspects of Bangladesh which are affected by child marriage. The findings of this study may help the concerned organizations to take necessary steps to reduce child marriage from the society for the national socioeconomic development of Bangladesh. All the data of this study was collected by the used of survey and direct interview research techniques. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Descriptive statistics were used to give details about the child marriage as well as inferential statistics were used to identify the affected socioeconomic aspects and show the significant relationship between child marriage and identified socioeconomic aspects of Bangladesh. Factor analysis was used to identify the factors that are affected by child marriage. Multivariate analysis of variance was used to show that the overall and individual significant effect of child marriage on identified socioeconomic factors. Findings of the study show that there are eight factors which are reasonably affected by child marriage. The identified factors are Increased the rate of maternal and child mortality as well as women health hazard, Raised the family financial crisis and decreased the standard of living, Hampered the socioeconomic development, Increased the family and social conflict along with the rate of divorce, Increased the population growth and the rate of dependent population, Increased the rate of mental and physical violence against women, Increased the rate of suicide and transaction of dowry, and Enhanced the juvenile delinquency and downfall the women social status. In this study multivariate analysis of variance demonstrates that the identified socioeconomic aspects are significantly affected by the child marriage. Our research recommends that if the rate of child marriage decreases from Bangladesh, then the current situation of identified socioeconomic aspects of the society will be developed and the expected national development will accelerate.

Keywords: Bangladesh, Child Marriage, Impact, Socioeconomic Aspects.

ISSN:
2250-3153