Development of an Intelligent Platform to Digitize Marriage, Empower Married Couple for Life and Family Wellbeing Towards Digital Bangladesh

Abstract

Marriage is the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as a pair in a legal, consensual, and contractual relationship recognized and sanctioned by law. In the law of every religion, there must be a legal and valid age-limit for marriage. Even though the law is strictly followed by government, most of the parents try to marry off their daughter at their early age. In most cases, parents hide their daughters age to the marriage register and without enough evidence, the register had to put the information in the registered documents. On the other hand, Kazi had to give revenue to the government for conducting every marriage but they are not aware of this process and hide it. There is no legalizing way to stop this circumvention. With the advancement of technology, people from both the village and cities are very concerned about their life and lifestyle. Where we live in the age of satellite but our marriage registration system is still in the old traditional form. After the marriage, couples hope for a wonderful life ahead. However, there are lots of concerns which arise in their mind regarding the conjugal life as well as issues related to before, during and after pregnancy. From our investigation, we identified stages required for mhealth adoption for married couples. Consequently, it created the opportunities to develop a smart application that can help to address the need. The aim of this paper is to analyze the primitive way marriage system and their huge impacts and effects on social life, finding the solution and generating a way to stop the delusion of the Kazi. An application will be proposed for the dynamic marriage registration and digitizing the system that will be the validation and legalization for the couple and the app can able to provide the planning of a couple for the contraceptives or to conceive, pregnancy planning and tracking with guideline needed for a pregnant woman along with the role of both husband and wife to help out and finally everything after the birth of the baby.