Posted on 08/26/2012 7:59:47 AM PDT by markomalley
Iran has experienced a dramatic growth in under-age marriages that has seen the number of girls being wed before the age of 10 double in the space of a year, officially-compiled figures have revealed.
The trend has prompted child protection experts to warn of a surge in mental illness, suicides, teenage runaways and girls turning to prostitution as the nuptials frequently end in divorce.
While both genders are affected, statistics from the state-run civil registration organisation show the phenomenon to be more prevalent among girls. Some families are said to be marrying off their daughters to older men to pay off debts.
An Iranian NGO, the Society For Protecting The Rights of The Child, said 43,459 girls aged under 15 had married in 2009, compared with 33,383 three years previously. In 2010, 716 girls younger than 10 had wed, up from 449 the previous year, according to the organisation.
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satan stalks the planet.
wear your scapulars for protection, you don’t have to be Catholic to wear one
must be a shortage of goats....
...or a glut of girls.
Hard to joke about this sick society. Everything about the Iranian regime is antithetical to human happiness.
I wear the blood of Jesus Christ and the full spiritual armor for protection.
It’s not our place to “mettle”.
Roseanne Barr fell over picking up a donut
I will now head to the right thread to make my post
I've always been a student of history but I didn't know this...
CONDOM HISTORY
Interesting piece of history!
In 1272, the Arabic Islamic Muslims invented the condom, using a goat's lower intestine.
In 1873, the British refined the idea by taking the intestine out of the goat first.
Hey . . . Don't thank me, I do this as a public service for the advancement of education.
On the dystopia scale, Iran probably rates as a better place to live than North Korea or Zimbabwe, but not by much.
You may be right about the immediate conditions, but I think North Korea and Zimbabwe have better prospects for recovery. North Korea is like East Germany in 1989, but admittedly a lot sicker, but there was a path to wellness. Zimbabwe might become another garden variety African kleptocracy. Where can Iran go? What tradition or model do they have to follow?
What a bunch of sick mothers. Lord please set them free !
wear your scapulars for protection, you dont have to be Catholic to wear oneIndeed! Saint Dominic said:
"One day, Brother Angelus, to your Order of Carmel the Most Blessed Virgin Mary will give a devotion to be known as the Brown Scapular, and to my Order of Preachers she will give a devotion to be known as the Rosary. AND ONE DAY, THROUGH THE ROSARY AND THE SCAPULAR, SHE WILL SAVE THE WORLD."
While both genders are affected
So some ten year old boys are being married too?
To young girls or older women?
Rarely see pix of that.
Many of them will be widows soon, not necessarily due to old age. Thanks markomalley.
My great, great, grandmother was married at the age of 15. Her husband, my great, great grandfather was a ripe ole 20.
Been there, done that. When someone else does it, I end up curious as to what thread they were on.
was suppose to be here....*smiles*
threads were an inch apart...
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