Read Sleepless in Salalah's latest post here. And the New York Times' piece here. I am so so so so sad. I feel sick to my stomach. What have we become? Why should a child be married off to a grown man and tied down to a bed and forced to have sex with him after he damaged her vagina and she was bleeding to death?? I am ready to go to Yemen and kill that man. What a sick sick sick animal. AND WHY CAN'T THE WORLD DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT????? WHY ARE THE YEMENIS STILL DEBATING??? This kind of situation requires immediate action. This type of marriage should have been banned centuries ago! We live in the year 2010. HOW can over a quarter of Yemeni brides be under the age of 15?
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My 60 year-old neighbor married a 13 year old child several years ago. I remember. THIRTEEN YEARS OLD. She asked for a divorce and got it when she turned 16. Humans can be such animals. Say a prayer/make Du'aa for all the children out there who are suffering ...
