[CobaltBlue]

Sarah was kidnapped from her American mother, who had custody, when she was six, by her Saudi father, and forced into an arranged marriage when she was young. I wonder how much attachment one would have to children born under those conditions. It's not like she grew up in a culture where force marriages are the norm.

Even in those cultures, the suicide rate for young wives in forced marriages is quite high. The husbands can legally rape, beat, and otherwise mistreat the women and nobody will ever come to their aid.

I think if I were impregnanted by a rapist I'd have a hard time feeling attached to the child. Thank goodness I was never in her shoes.

[Ready4Freddy]

"It's not like she grew up in a culture where force[ed] marriages are the norm."

Are you saying that arranged / forced mariages aren't common in Saudi?

[darkwing104]

I think if I were impregnanted by a rapist I'd have a hard time feeling attached to the child. Thank goodness I was never in her shoes.

This is one story that leaves me asking more questions. We just aren't getting the whole story, just is what being spoon-fed to us by a few people. I have a deep appreciation for my fellow FReepers but my gut feeling says there is something else going on. I'am glad she is back in the U.S. and that is a start. We got a ways to go before the Saudis get a clue that their culture is way behind the times.