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LINK Child grooms are often overlooked in the campaign to stop child marriage : Goats and Soda : NPR

The teenager dreamed of becoming a doctor. But that dream was derailed by child marriage. It's a familiar story – but in this case the details may surprise you.

The 15-year-old wasn't a child bride. He was a child groom.

Child marriage – defined by the United Nations as marriage under age 18 and considered a violation of human rights – disproportionally impacts girls. An estimated 650 million girls and women were married as children.

But there are also child grooms. In its first ever in-depth analysis of child grooms, published in 2019, UNICEF estimates 115 million boys and men around the world were married as children.

snytiger6 9 Jan 2
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I suggest that much of the problem is society's failure to prepare people for early responsibility and to create employment that enables economic maintenance of a young family.

The so called expert Dr. Pashupati Mahat
[mhinnovation.net]
is perhaps seeking to reduce workload rather than identifying & striving for solution including rephrasing of societal expectation (new spouse & groom seen as free labour).

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And upto or more than 500 million male children genitally mutilated by mentally sick barbarians.

Strange that UNICEF & women demanding equality don't mention them for fear of offending the Jews, the S. Koreans, the Americans & the Catholics. Or is it?

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Very good article. Thank you.
All lives are degraded by this horrendous practice. Not just women, as we often hear, but this is true of all horrendous practices. Nor is just boys who Priests abused. It's children of both genders. This garbage about religious authority is sick.

Horrendous practice? Everyone envied our 14 year old classmate who had a 28 year old mistress.

@FrayedBear Your 14 year old classmate was being sexually abused, children can't consent to sex with adults.

@Druvius 56 years later he sees it as part of his education & life experience not abuse. Why should he have been limited to orgasm by masturbation?

@Druvius But they can consent to sex with another inexperienced minor? What is the abuse?

@FrayedBear Defending the rape of children. You're one sick puppy. Seek help.

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