Child Bride Rescued From Wedding in Pakistan
Pakistani police rescued a nine year old girl from being married off to a 14 year old boy to solve a family dispute and arrested four village elders who had ordered the "compensation wedding".
The intervention in Pakistan's largest province, Punjab, is uncommon in a country where it is often culturally acceptable to use marriage to build and strengthen alliances, settle disputes or pay off debts.
According to UNICEF data, three percent of girls in Pakistan are married before they turn 15 and 21 percent before the age of 18. The parents of child brides are often poor and use marriage as a way to provide for their daughter's future
Finally, I find this very pitiful. A lot of these girls are younger than me and I just can't imagine what they feel when they marry with a man of age their father.
Developing countries don't hold problems like these. i think economy and poverty is not an excuse to marry your daughter of underage, still has not yet experienced the fun of adolescence is just a little girl.
News-link...>http://in.reuters.com/article/pakistan-childmarriage-idINKCN0W61AY
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