Is the horror just beginning?
An image of forced marriages in Afghanistan, chosen as picture of the year by Unicef – LaVanguardia.es (link in Spanish): The image was taken by the U.S. photographer Stephanie Sinclair, which shows an 11 year old child that looks with fear her 40 year old husband. The idea for the article came from an earlier work about women that would commit suicide, setting themselves on fire, many of them having been children when they were delivered to their husbands.
You guys are all jealous of that man because you can’t date any young girls for fear that it’s an NBC hoax.
#16==Way to not understand a single thing you read in the excellent and informative post of #15.
Read it again.
“You don’t care” items should be read until you atleast see the other side.
So, its better to starve to death than to be sold as a child bride? Said by someone who has never traveled.
Its NOT the rich and powerful who sell their children, stupid, its the poorest of the poor selling to 2-3 levels less poor.
Earn those high marks, Dolt!
#7 JERK.
I, for one, welcome our new NAMBLA overlords.
Yuck!
Some philosophies are incompatible with the West and they know it. Do you?
If you would murder a woman over a teddy bear, we are not compatible.
What to say?
Americans, i never loved ya too much… but please continue bombing Afghan.
PS- greetings to THE ANSWER man:) I agree with everything you’ve said , bro:)
I feel pitty about afghan man on picture. He wanted to get married but instead wife and couple of years of hot nights & days first, he instantly become parent.
Well, that’s bad luck:)
#18 – You don’t see my name pop up here very often. I try to provide information only where I have something of value to add. Sorry you see that as trolling. Unless you were speaking of my appearance. Very trollish, I assure you.
Women are sold into marriage in much more of the world than they are not. I, myself, had to provide a very expensive gold and diamond ring to my beloved. Which she kept when my trollish appearance frightened her away.
So, my friend: got any opinions on societies where women have to BUY their way into a marriage? Dowries are not uncommon even today. Even in the USA.
As for your other points: FMG? Supposed to keep the woman chaste. Any worse than European chastity belts? Cutting off hands? Eye for an eye ring a bell? Or how about branding A for adulterer on a woman in American society? Any atrocity you can point out in the Muslim world, we can find a similar one in Christian societies. But, as we become “enlightened” we try to leave these things behind us.
My whole point was that things are changing in Afghan society as they become more and more exposed to western and other “enlightened” societies.
Interestingly enough, I heard the Taliban banned such practices as child marriage, pedophilia, not to mention they wiped out 98% of the opium crops in 2001.
With the return of the Northern Alliance, its now commonplace to see and older man with his little boy lover in tow, and opium flows freely to a needy world.
The law of unintended consequences applies here I guess.
9#
Our right.. our prohet married an 9 yers old firl whose name was Aisha.
Firstly because her social and economlical conitions were not well; her mother died when she was not yet married. She was the eldest sister and had no1 who could take more care of her then the prophet.
Secondly she herself wanted to marry the prophet, she said it first.
Thirdly..why would she have such an idea about marry him? we have to c this case from a cultural or better said historical pespective; women at that time were more “safe” when they were married…a lot of young girls were married when they were very(when they were able to reproduce) at that time. Most criminals did not dare to rape a married woman.
But 2day it is sure a big problem that very young girls r married when they r not agree theirselves. When they fare their old husbands. But in many poor countries this is a problem.