Sunday, June 24, 2007

married at age 9


Can you imagine it? I saw this in my Sociology book a while ago when we were studying marriage and family and I could hardly believe it. Being married at 9 years old, and to someone who is 22? Having him give me a doll as a wedding present? I wonder what her life was like. Wow. Crazy!

4 comments:

A said...

It's sad that Child marriage still exists in other parts of world. watch the nepali film named 'ujeli' made by UNICEF.

mushroommeadows said...

That is totally disturbing; recently, I heard about a 40 year old track coach getting married to his 16 year old student. :(

Kim said...

that is so sad!!!

Pearl Maple said...

the world sure is different in some parts of the world now and was differnt in other eras