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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Tradition, science, law, "utang na loob"

In Yemen, very young girls can be wed.

Najood Ali, 10 years old, walked out of her husband of 30 years. She asked a judge for a divorce and she was granted.

In Yemen there are tradition of early marriage due to a religious model and of course the ubiquitous situation called poverty.

We know in public health that an early pregnancy exposes a girl to dangers due to child birth. Much of these girls wanted to play more.

In Romania a girl asked to have an abortion at age 11 because she felt it violates her right being a child. She was raped by her 19 year old uncle.

Click link for the full article:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/29/mideast/yemen.php

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

grabe nmn un! kawawa ung mga girls! dapat patayin ung mga nagpapagawa ng gnun eh! haha! sir anu nga po pla ung meaning dun sa "match-catch" game?

Anonymous said...

sir ito po email add ko and ym. tiffajoy_lim@yahoo.com

Jose Leonidas said...

Hi Tiffany, how are you? what keeps you busy these days?