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Thank you for sharing her name, Kaisu. I’ll have to read more about her humanitarian work. I’m so happy that this abomination of a “practice” has been made illegal. No child should have their childhood torn away from them.

I read her story. She's amazingly brave to break the horrible tradition. Girls as young as 11 would often be wed with strangers in exchange for a cow or something. Child marriage in my country is a real issue, the legal age for female to marry is 16, which is too young.

https://www.lifegate.com/people/news/theresa-kachindamoto-child-marriage-malawi And if anyone thought that child marriage does not exist in the US, well, then think again! https://www.thenation.com/article/about-half-of-us-states-set-no-minimum-age-for-marriage/

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Ok, but hearing "Buzz" and "Neil" landed on the moon doesn't have the same affect.

What species treats their young like this?

True https://www.forbes.com/sites/unicefusa/2018/10/29/what-you-need-to-know-about-child-marriage-in-the-us-1/#64f01dfd5689 And it may surprise some to know that the ones fighting hardest to keep child marriage legal in the US are Christian Evangelicals: https://www.salon.com/2018/03/11/banning-child-marriage-in-america-an-uphill-fight-against-evangelical-pressure/

earringmut - amnesia due to sexual trauma is extremely common. I had amnesia about whole parts of my childhood for years because of the sexual abuse I experienced from my grandfather from the age of 4. It's because as children we dissociate from our bodies and go off somewhere else in our heads to escape the trauma. So the memories do not form properly. but the traumatic memory in the body stays ,and very often causes physical illness as well as the expected mental health problems, that we do not understand until the memories come back. Amnesia can happen to adults who are raped in an abducted/kidnaped situation or domestic abuse /enslavement situation as well, it's a very common coping mechanism. And of course child marriage is child rape/abuse. So I"m not surprised to hear that about the person you met.

I met an adult child bride. It was such a messed up "lifestyle" that she has tramma induced amnesia. I believe that is the definition of FUAR.

I meant FUBAR. F'd up beyond all recognition.

What is FUAR?

"... in about 25 states, ... the government sets no legal minimum marriage age. Just three states, Virginia, New York, and Texas, limit marriage to over-18-year-olds, thanks to recent reforms. (In June, New York finally raised the marriage age from 14 to 18.) https://www.thenation.com/article/about-half-of-us-states-set-no-minimum-age-for-marriage/

This has nothing to do with the judgement of the west. The change was implemented by a Malawi chief, not some outside force.

You can't compare circumcision to female genital mutilation. Female circumcision is done when the girl is adolescent and fully cognizant of what's going on (i.e. she can feel and remember it). Number 2, I've never met a circumcised man who couldn't function sexually (but if so there is Viagra). Circumcise a woman and you've taken away all her sexual sensation. And yes, you can be against both. I am against all forms of genital mutilation. I am against eating dogs and pigs equally. I hope that's clear.

romeo and julia where the same age, it's not like romeo was some creepy old paedophile rapist -_-

We've restricted marriage to adulthood because we've understood that children cannot give consent. Furthermore, the child marriage mentioned here is not two children marrying each other, but preteen girls married off to middle aged men and getting raped by them

The issue isn’t so much 14 year olds marrying each other (although that can be an issue as it interrupts young people’s educations) but 14 year girls being forced to marry men more than twice their age.

As it should be. Child marriages shouldn't be a thing.

They do, if they want to ram home the message that they are inferior, eg in the southern states of America black men often get called ‘boy’ and white S Africans called black men ‘boy’ during Apartheid days.

In some non-abusive contexts they do, although in most of those contexts the word "lads" is more often used. Dictionary definition of "lad": A boy or young man. However the use of "girl" instead of "lady" or "woman" seems more common, even by women about other women.

Yes that's why I'm happy about it! 😊 I saw on YouTube that its mostly in the rural areas. But there's a social worker that's trying to teach them the bad side of child marriages.