Like a good western - educated liberal woman, I've always been appalled at the idea of arranged marriages and child marriages in particular.
As a hippy do-good international volunteer type, I've always heard that if you can keep a girl in school and educate her then her chances of teen pregnancy and marriage are much lower. (Hmm....gotta work on that here in Queensland a bit, don't we?!)
So these recent commercials on sending aid money to impoverished girls so that they are able to stay in school rather than face marriage in their early teens should be right up my alley.
However, as the mother of a recalcitrant, obnoxious, ungrateful, almost-fourteen year old girl in the midst of puberty, I'd do almost anything to get her out of the house at this point.
Any takers? We're prepared to pay a really decent bride price.
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