Title--Forced to Marry Before Puberty, African Girls pay Lasting Price
Author--Sharon LaFraniere
Publication--The New York Times, November 27, 2005
- girls are used by families (fathers mainly) to pay debt to other fathers
- the girls oftentimes do not understand the true nature of what they are going to be 'traded' away for
- this: takes the girls out of school, causes them to be adolescent mothers, and creates traumatic experiences
- girls are forced to marry men 3 or 4 decades their superior
- "...girls later choose lifelong misery over divorce because custom decrees that children in patriarchal tribes belong to the father."
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