The taboo of child marriages.

[gorush]

No advantages at all.
Even 20 years is a child

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[Coffee_Lover]

Being forced to live with a person you barely know for the rest of your life, with no way out is totally horrifying. According to stats in Pakistan 20 percent of women are married before the age of 18, and most of these marriages are forced. To many it may seem like a high profile social issue, but if you think about it on a personal level you will realize that it is simply cruel. Forcing a child in a marriage, whose happiness is in playing freely and living peacefully with their parents, is no way fair. They barely know the meaning of marriage.

Forced marriage is not good for me, i totally disagree with it. In my country, forced marriage has been wiped out decades ago and we are now free to choose any one we love but fits our own standards. Being with someone you don't even know for the rest of your life is very disappointing and unhappy. There may be some instances that they learn to love one another but i know there are women who suffer from this kind of marriage. I am lucky enough i was not born in any of this country.

[CryptoKyddie]

Child marriages are bad no matter how you look at them. Simply they are WRONG

[aroweyen]

Child marriage is more common in developing countries. It prevents the ability of a girl to reach her full potential. They are not able to complete their education because they are pulled out of school and forced to do house chores. These girls experience increased health risks arising from premature pregnancies and increased exposure to HIV and more.

Can you imagine how a 12-14 Year old brain would be processing all these physical and psychological changes going around. Marriage is a time for celebration and joy, unless you are one of the unfortunate 60 million girls around the world forced into marriage before the age of 18.

[Philip Graham]

Child marriages isn´t somethihng new in the world, this pratices is still in some cultures and well one have to respect them.

[Temitope]

While some religious agree with child marriage many other disregard it. It almost depends on culture. To me it is not good because many of those that are involved can't take decision on their own

[Wiskeycrew]

Regarding what you've mentioned about Pakistan I believe we must respect traditions of any country. If it'll become a problem there they will figure it out by themselves and we shouldn't cram down throat our liberal values even though I consider myself a liberal

[Xising]

Child marriage is downright outrageous! I don’t care if it’s customary or something they simply enjoy. It is wrong and it’s a shame that some countries still practice this crappy tradition. Children have the right to enjoy their childhood; they should be playing their hearts out; not getting married without a clue of what they’re getting into. 

[oannejoannes]

When a girl starts coming of age, growing up, the evil eyes of the society instantly divert towards the physical change her body faces; no matter how inhumane that sounds, it is a harsh reality of our society that we seem to overlook. The pedophile nature of men in our society is something that has been sheltered and covered, hiding the taboo, whilst everyone knows the reality.

[ApocalypseNow]

I see those usually documented on natgeo or discovery channel and these people or tribes share the same thing. And that is lack of knowledge and right education. If only the government reach out to them so these taboo will end.

[udroxz]

Humans need to marriage but in childhood marriage are not acceptable they dont know how to live so they need to learn so need time to learn.

[Sithara007]

That is one of the reasons I hate pakistan because they don't give a damn to girls independent opinions

These sort of incidents are not just limited to Pakistan. Most of the third world nations are like that. Look at Nepal. The majority of the girls get married when they are 15 or 16. Some even get married when they are 12 or 13 years old. Same is the case in other countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh.etc.

[blithelymorelT6]

So cruel we are that we are selling our daughters in the hand of untrusted man who is also a criminal to accept her as wife

[us11csalyer]

For me this is unacceptable. This is practically slavery, especially for girls. She can not divorce, she can not disobey her husband. Just awful.

[balintong15]

marriage is good. it is a feeling of independence. independence from everything form a new responsibilities and obligations to take. a new decision of life to make. being married to the person you love is a good feeling. but being married when you are still child? i do not agree on this. i am sorry because childs mind is not fully developed and mature that is why parents must guide them in their emotional health to make better decisions.

[Tunaite]

I don't think that marrying your child off early is a right thing to do but it is their culture and you can't just enforce your way of thinking on them.

[thongsbe]

Having after marriage sex with a infant girl is equal to the crime of rape as they even don't know what's pennis and vagina

[keywordsbadge]

I don't know why people still are not aware? why they want to sacrifice their own daughter? for the fear of society? shame

[dharnamonitor]

Parents are in advantage here I think, though I don't really know how child marriage happen in your country. There is nothing we can do here because it is in their culture and for whatever reasons they do it we should not judge them easily.

[princess.tyche]

Poor people usually ask their little girl to be married to older man because of their (parents) debt. Once they've married all the debt pays off. But in the village, they let their daughter to be married at age 16. And this is a fact. Their parents maybe afraid that their daughter won't find any spouse once they got older. But because of this early marriage, government now have to deal with over population. That's why the government create a rules for minimum marriage age is 21.