After
reading this article I am appalled. In Yemen child marriage is actually legal.
It was said that most girls in Yemen are given away to marriage before they are
fifteen years old to men much, much older. In the case of this article, a
little eight-year-old girl was found dead on her wedding night. She was said to
have suffered internal injuries. This eight-year-old girl was being wed to a forty-year-old
man.
I understand that this is part of
Yemen culture but the ide of it is disgusting. Other people from Yemen are
stating to agree because they are fighting to have child marriage outlawed, its
just unfortunate for an event like this to happen for them to want to change
the law.
They still aren’t sure where the
child actually is, and rumors say she may be alive or secretly buried, either
way I believe that children marriages should be outlawed. “Thousand of Yemeni
girls have their childhood stolen and their futures destroyed because they are
forced to marry to young”( Liesl Gerntholtz).
Heather,
ReplyDeleteI read this article too and was astounded at the death of the innocent child. It's remarkable that what is considered an accepted cultural tradition in one place, like Yemen, is a criminal offense that warrants legal persecution in our society.
Gab