tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066663037080703116.post1238623843225127891..comments2023-07-08T21:14:17.220+05:30Comments on Vector Gaming: Cruelty to children: Child marriage in YemenAathira Nairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11255345206244009650noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066663037080703116.post-63124786737460010812010-06-01T13:23:09.772+05:302010-06-01T13:23:09.772+05:30u have become a damn good sociologist aathirau have become a damn good sociologist aathiraPenguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719731204362441339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066663037080703116.post-39351161505162204962010-05-19T16:51:39.832+05:302010-05-19T16:51:39.832+05:30Marriage between two children is less brutal. Also...Marriage between two children is less brutal. Also although we have some customs, if they wish to - parents can do a lot to help the child at any age. <br /><br />My domestic helper from Orissa was married at 12 to another kid. Later she grew much taller than her husband and refused to go with him. She met another man from her own community and was married to him with everybody's blessings. <br /><br />After five kids, when his beatings started becoming dangerous (he broke one of her ribs etc) her father in law and older brother in law felt she would be safer at her parents house. Her parents sent her to Delhi to stay with her sister and here after a while her sister arranged her marriage with an unmarried Nepali man. <br /><br />Her story shows that those who use custom are just looking for excuses to do nothing. I am sure Yemen also has parents who - even if they have to marry a young girl wouldn't marry her to an old man, and they need not send her to her husband's house until she is older. (Gauna is a custom in some parts of India where a married girl is sent to her husband's house only after she is 16 or so. )<br /><br />Also Islam gives a girl the right to give her permission for getting married. I had read about it earlier and recently watched <b> Khuda ke liye</b> where Nasiruddin Shah makes it very, very clear that is not <i>permitted</i> to a girl to agree with or refuse to marry a man, but 'uska haqu hai' (IT'S HER RIGHT)... so if parents really care for their children (daughters) they can support them.Indian Home Makerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10649133480442907582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066663037080703116.post-64695886869057350772010-05-18T22:46:02.716+05:302010-05-18T22:46:02.716+05:30One word for it! height of illiteracy in moslim wo...One word for it! height of illiteracy in moslim world :(Manjunathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10230278254360556497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066663037080703116.post-83808748404676538342010-05-18T13:48:50.081+05:302010-05-18T13:48:50.081+05:30What I never understand is, why is it important to...<b> What I never understand is, why is it important to get the girls married so young. If they are at the parents house, what is it that can go so drastically wrong? In fact in Yemen, where there is a reason, which is that young girls are being kidnapped and hence they see them to be married a safer option, a better deal than the way it is done in India, where it is just seen as a custom which was being followed and is being blindly followed.<br /><br />I wonder how much an NGO is able to do if the girls are married off in a matter of hours/days, I do not think any NGO can be posted at a village and safeguard children. It is the duty of the parents and unless they are made to understand their responsibility, and that getting them married does not end their responsibilities, maybe then things might just change! </b>Aathira Nairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11255345206244009650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066663037080703116.post-17502745214673379062010-05-18T12:21:37.303+05:302010-05-18T12:21:37.303+05:30Hmm.I think it still exists in our country.
I thin...Hmm.I think it still exists in our country.<br />I think there is a news article about it in Todays News paper..<br />The Times Of India - bangalore Edition. about marriage happened in Rajasthan.<br /><br />I think people and Organizations, the NGOS should take proactive steps in curbing such situationsSorcererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09888708436228212202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066663037080703116.post-60675134866548630312010-05-15T19:45:30.833+05:302010-05-15T19:45:30.833+05:30Well child marriages exist in every society..rajas...Well child marriages exist in every society..rajasthan ( hindus).....buti think in socities like rajasthan two kids marry...and if even they make love, it would not be brutal...<br /><br />places like yemen are backward...and so it will take time..<br /><br />you can see news from saudi where fathers over 60 swap young daughters to get married...moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02883198972032167203noreply@blogger.com