{"id":40273,"date":"2014-08-19T12:17:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T12:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=40273"},"modified":"2014-08-19T12:18:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T12:18:25","slug":"priscilla-must-marry-societal-pressure-on-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=40273","title":{"rendered":"Priscilla Must Marry &#8211; Societal pressure on marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Is there a rule of thumb for getting married at a certain age?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Most young Ghanaian women are pressured by their family, friends and the society at large to get married when they are in their late 20&#8217;s. The pressure usually leads to most of these women hastily getting into relationships that later do not necessarily make them happy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some parents and guardians go to the extent of encouraging their daughters to get married to force their lovers to marry them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But is this the way to go? How does the society help young women build their capacities adequately before getting married?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This documentary, by Afua Kessewaa Akoto, tells the story of Priscilla, a young lady who is being pressured to get married, and other ladies who have gone through the same ordeal.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/163802305&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 97.3 Citi FM Hold My Hand Documentary Series is proudly sponsored by<span style=\"color: #993366;\"> <a title=\"Click to go to the Star Ghana website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.starghana.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">STAR GHANA<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a rule of thumb for getting married at a certain age? Most young Ghanaian women are pressured by their family, friends and the society at large to get married when they are in their late 20&#8217;s. The pressure usually leads to most of these women hastily getting into relationships that later do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":40272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1641,1159,1652,2025],"class_list":["post-40273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-igp","tag-ministry-of-health","tag-trump-travel-ban","tag-whatsapp-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}