It should be happiest day of her life, but 15-year-old Nasoin Akhter couldn't look more miserable because she is being forced into marriage to a 32-year-old man. As these images show, the Bangladeshi schoolgirl appears forlorn and, at times, even scared as she gets ready for the ceremony in Manikganj, near the capital Dhaka.
Sadly, Nasoin is by no means alone in a country which has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. Since the turn of the century, there have been more than 3,000 acid attacks in the country.
According to the Acid Survivors Foundation in Bangladesh, almost all the attacks have been on women or girls while many of the victims are under 18.
The main reason for the violence is dowries, refusal of love proposals, or land disputes.
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Youdonmeanit? Bet why?
It is well
It is well #onelovefromsnow#
What the fuck is this
Most times when we walk into big malls, boutiques, supermarkets, we never question their prices. We pay exactly what we see on the price tags and even hand out tips to the staff.
But the moment we are out of these shops and want to buy banana, our bargaining game gets off to the roof. Poor widow with 12 hungry children at home tells you banana is N100. She even takes out her time to explain how difficult it was for her to even buy it, how the economy is so tough.
But we insist that if it's not N50, we are not paying. Some of us even step back into our cars and make to drive away. But because 'half bread is better chin chin', this woman is forced to call you back and sell to you at little or no gain. In her heart, she cries, she's worried about how she'll survive with her children. She silently reassures herself that 'It's well.
God will definitely provide.'' While you happily chop the luscious banana. Take some seconds out and think about this, guys. Please don't bargain hard with small vendors like this. They do business not to buy designer bags, Gucci shoes but to LIVE and EAT!
What the fuck is this
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This is not fair at all.
a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said..
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The parent should be ashamed of their selfs.... Foolish fools.....
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***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***
can't something be done to stop this marriage from happening?
check out Huddah Monroe the whore
Hian!
What a tradition!!!God's wrath will visit them all. Paedophiles....
This is also happening in Nigeria. Having served in the North, saw my 15yr old students given to marriage.
Its a very wrong practice and shouldn't be allowed to thrive many perverts hide behind religion.
I jst dey feel 4 d girl...nawa oooo dey shld hav given her sm time nahh....mstchhheeewww
A 17 year gap! okay na
A 17 year gap! okay na
lets join hands and say no to child marriage. The girl child has a right to education and choice of a spouse. SAY NO TO VIOLENCE AND ABUSE OF THE GIRL-CHILD
Na wa..... Oh! Child abuse. Well since its their traditional rule. It be a happy marriage life
Why not leave their culture alone, later you complain America is trying to sell you their culture,n respect their culture, if that is how they manage to keep the marriage in check and family system working, leave it to them, here were women marry on the happiest day of their lives, how many last more than 5 years in marriage?
Soo sad
SMH.
She looks like a marine spirit
She wasn't even happy in just one picture...
This is unfair...
Sad bride...make she nor vex poison e food ooo
Imagine,sad.15years old want to play and have fun not to look after grown men.I happy was not born in this retarded environment,
Eeeeeeeeeyah! I feel her pain. Linda take note!
Eeeeeeeeeyah! I feel her pain. Linda take note!
Eeeeeeeeeyah! I feel her pain. Linda take note!
1. You're dumb.
2. If only you knew bangali men.
3. Take heart little girl. I just pity the pressures of marriage that will be shoved down on your frail shoulders. I'm a full grown man and I need help from time to time getting my act together...albeit a 15 year old, she's a child!
4. Sex will be unbearable. Even though bangali men have the tiniest dicks, they stink and spit like pregnant women... with their slimy saliva and bed bugs. *shudders*
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These tinz hapn even in 9ja, especially north were a father gives out hs underage daughter as a present to hs frnd... Smh.. sumtyms dis gals wish d were boys... Women are jst being disrespected and treated like piece of shit..#WE DESERVE LOVE/RESPECT..and d right to b HAPPY# is dat jst too hard for d world to give eh *sight*
These tinz hapn even in 9ja, especially north were a father gives out hs underage daughter as a present to hs frnd... Smh.. sumtyms dis gals wish d were boys... Women are jst being disrespected and treated like piece of shit..#WE DESERVE LOVE/RESPECT..and d right to b HAPPY# is dat jst too hard for d world to give eh *sight*
Anon 8.53...of all the stupid most idiotic comments I have ever seen in my life, yours takes the crown. Wow! How completely dense and stupid can someone get...are you cursed or what?
IHave you ever heard of vesico vaginal fistula? No of course not...I bet if you have seen people it has affected, you will kill yourself for this very heartless and insensitive comment. A teenage girl that should be in school learning how to be of help to herself and her society, is forced into marriage with a man more than twice her age doomed to life of poverty and early child birth with possibilities of cervical cancer and vvf, and all your corrugated ironsheetfilled brain could come up with is 'its tradition' ?? Just stick to commenting on kardashian or transgender posts since you lack the cognitive capacity to think like a human being.
How can a 15yrs old child play wifely roles to a full grown man. I just shudder when i think about these things. She is a only child. Same thing is happening in our Country Nigeria too, amongst the Muslims of course.
#TeamBlessed#
How can a 15yrs old child play wifely roles to a full grown man. I just shudder when i think about these things. She is a only child. Same thing is happening in our Country Nigeria too, amongst the Muslims of course.
#TeamBlessed#
She really looks sad....
Anonymous 8:53, are you just saying is their culture? Please have you watch Dry by Stephanie Linus? Please go and watch the movie. Once you are done, i can respond to you . You do not know the trauma this people go through. After seeing Stephanie's movie, I wept and my heart goes to the innocent young girl that are been forced into marriage. May God help us
This is very sad. 15years of age...... i knew nothing about marriage when i was 15. I always had dumb crushes here and there. This child's mind is not developed for this. And it's a big shame on the man's path. I mean how disgusting is this, arent there women that are mature enough for marriage. #waragainstchildbride.
Dis pracice should b stopped and govt should do sth abt dis.
Have u seen a marine spirit?
It doesn't matter it's their tradition,many had done it before her and many will still do after her,it's how they do their thing .why don't you all insults those Americans young and old who spreAd their legs for any dick..this is bloody !go face your problems and leave them alone..you all go get A LIFE!!
Hath thou no sense at all? This is a global phenomenon and it's not only amongst Muslims. So make proper enquiries before spewing trash about other people. U need sugar, honey and God to sweeten your intestines. Too much bile. Tueh!
Smh. This is pathetic!
Child abuse.
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Apart from VVF, Cervical Cancer and other physiological consequences,
have you considered the psychological? That such miserable/angry wives
are likely to only give birth to socially disconnected children?
Think Terrorism!
Apart from VVF, Cervical Cancer and other physiological consequences,
have you considered the psychological? That such miserable/angry wives
are likely to only give birth to socially disconnected children?
Think Terrorism!
Too bad. This is totally unacceptable. Pedophiles should be castrated.
Gentle you have said it all, I therefore rest my case. Anony 8.53 please schedule a brain surgery. Ode!
Diss z xo unfair
Dis z xo unfair
Diss z xo unfair
My boyfriend is 14yrs older than me, I have a family friend whose father is 20yrs older than her mother. She might have consented to it
Senseless
1 A.D. -- (Augustus Ceasor) Traditionally the age at which individuals could come together in a sexual union was something either for the family to decide or a matter of tribal custom. Probably in most cases this coincided with the onset of MENARCHE in girls and the appearance of pubic hair in boys, that is, between twelve and fourteen, but the boundaries remained fluid. In much of classical Greece this was true of both same- and opposite-sex relationships. In Republican Rome, marriage and the age of consent were initially private matters between the families involved. Not until the time of Augustus in the first century C.E. did the state begin to intervene. Marriage then legally became a two-step process, a betrothal which involved an enforceable agreement between the heads of two households, and then marriage itself. Women who were not yet of age could be betrothed with the consent of their fathers, but the woman herself had to consent to marriage. (This was still true in the 600's in Arabia; fathers could contract a marriage for their immature daughters of any age - even without their consent. However, when Islam came, girls had to be old enough for marriage [past puberty] and accept the proposal).
The Roman tradition influenced peoples and cultures with whom it had come in contact. In the Islamic tradition following Muhammad, betrothal could take place earlier than PUBERTY, perhaps as early as seven, but the marriage was not supposed to be consummated until the girl menstruated and was of age. In medieval Europe, Gratian, the influential founder of Canon law in the twelfth century, accepted the traditional age of puberty for marriage (between 12 and 14) but he also said consent was "meaningful" if the children were older than seven. Some authorities said consent could take place earlier. Such a marriage would be permanent as long as neither party sought annulment before reaching puberty (12 for girls and 14 for boys) or if they had already consummated the marriage. Even if the husband had technically raped his wife before she reached puberty, the marriage was regarded as consummated. It was this policy which was carried over into English common law, and although consent was necessary, force and influence or persuasion seemed to have been permissible elements. Similarly Gratian's ideas about age became part of European civil law.
The age of consent in both English and continental law seemed to be particularly elastic when property was involved or family alliances were at stake. For example in 1564, a three year old named John was married to a two year old named Jane in the Bishop's Court in Chester, England. Though Shakespeare set his Romeo and Juliet in Verona, the fact that Juliet was thirteen probably reflects the reality in England. Her mother, who was twenty-six, calls her almost an old maid.
The American colonies followed the English tradition but the law could at best be called a guide. For example in Virginia in 1689, Mary Hathaway was only nine (9) when she was married to William Williams. We know of her case only because two years later she sued for divorce, and was released from the covenant she had made because the marriage had not been consummated. Interestingly, historian Holly Brewer, who discovered the case, speculated that if William had raped Mary, she probably would not have been given the divorce.
1600's -- The only reliable data on age at marriage in England in the early modern period comes from Inquisitions Post Mortem (after death) which involved only those who died and left property. It appears that the more complete the records, the more likely it is to discover young marriages. Judges honored marriages based on mutual consent at age younger than seven (7), in spite of what Gratian had said, and there are recorded marriages of two (2) and (3) three year olds. The seventeenth-century lawyer Henry Swinburne distinguished between the marriages of those under seven (7) and those between seven and puberty. He wrote that those under seven who had said their vows had to ratify it afterwards by giving kisses and embraces, by laying together, by exchanging gifts or tokens, or by calling each other husband or wife.
1600's -- A contemporary, Philip Stubbes, wrote that in sixteenth-century East Anglia, infants still in swaddling clothes were married.
1600's -- The most influential legal text of the seventeenth century in England, that of Sir Edward Coke, made it clear that the marriage of girls under twelve (12) was normal, and the age at which a girl who was a wife was eligible for a dower from her husband's estate was nine (9 years old) even though her husband be only four (4) years old.
The age of consent was more variable than a summary of the law seems to imply. Peter Laslett, for example, used available statistics to argue marriage and child bearing in the late teens was not common in England and marriage at twelve was virtually unknown. The problem is that his statistics might well be skewed because in England only a small portion of marriages were registered, and even on these registrations it is difficult to tell if they recorded first or second or later marriages. A second marriage by a man in his late fifties or a woman in her early thirties skews the data. Not all marriage records even bother to record the participants' ages. Unrecorded are marriages without parental consent and private weddings and the quality of data varies from region to region. For example in the parish of Middlesex County, Virginia, there is a record of fourteen-year-old Sarah Halfhide marrying twenty-one-year-old Richard Perrot. Only in the last sentence of the register does it indicate that she was a widow. Did the compiler read that far? We simply do not know what her age at first marriage was, or even if it had been consummated. Of the ninety-eight girls on the ten-year register, three probably married at age eight, one at twelve, one at thirteen, and two at fourteen. Historians in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have sometimes been reluctant to accept data regarding young ages of marriage, holding instead that the recorded age was a misreading by a later copier of the records. Natalie Davis, whose book The Return of Martin Guerre became a movie, made her heroine, Bertrande, much older than the nine-to ten-year old girl she was when she married her missing husband.
In the nineteenth century France issued the Napoleonic Code and many other countries, following France's example, began revising their laws. The Napoleonic Code, however, had not changed the age of consent, which remained at thirteen. When historian Magnus Hirschfeld surveyed the age of consent of some fifty countries (mostly in Europe and the Americas) at the beginning of the twentieth century, the age of consent was twelve in fifteen countries, thirteen in seven, fourteen in five, fifteen in four, and sixteen in five. In the remaining countries it remained unclear. In England and the United States, feminist agitation in the late nineteenth century called attention to the young age of consent and called for changes in the law. By the 1920s the age of consent, a state issue in the United States, was raised in every state and ranged from fourteen to eighteen, with most states settling on sixteen or eighteen.
In the last part of the twentieth century the U.S. public once again took note of age of consent issues. Although sometimes it is not possible to identify a single age of consent since the statutory age varies with the age of the defendant and with the particular sexual activity, in the United States as of 2000 the age at which a person may engage in any sexual conduct permitted to adults within a particular state ranges between fourteen to eighteen. In the vast majority of states the age is either fifteen or sixteen. Most states set the minimum age for marriage without parental approval at eighteen, and there are elaborate provisions governing which parent must give consent and who qualifies as a custodial parent or guardian when marriage under eighteen takes place. There are occasional contradictions since some states will allow a minor to marry with parental permission at an age when the minor cannot engage in legal sexual activity, while others allow a minor to engage in sexual activity years before he or she can marry without parental approval.
Thank God I'm a christian. SMH!
Linda nd u ar still siting down der..ok
Ewoo!!! See comment by Anon 9:54. Fantastic comment. Anon 8:53, go bury ur sef in shame. Hehehehe
She looks so depressed. My heart goes out to her
so not gud!!!
Sick retard. Guess you were raped by your 90 year old granny when you were 7, that alone explains your decayed thought process. Run along now psycho, go check your retarded ass into a rehab. Pig.
so not gud!!!
Well Said!!! Atleast marriage is cleaner
I really do not understand what you pple are ranting about. if you all cant fathom an answer to all these questions. Then you should all f*ucking mute!. Pls who labeled the puberty age we all recognize as "18", West or science?. And pls what is puberty itself ? And pls which doctrine says you must reach a specified age before marriage? And pls is the girl complaining ? was she forced ?
To each his/her own journey in this life.. Choose what pleases you in this life and let others live their own lives too!
The society full of young teens engaging in premarital sex here and there. you all chose not to rant about that. Confused beings!!
things are happening, not even one picture were she smiled. anyways see her parents, her mum is still young while her dad is already very old.. thats the same way she too might end up
But were you or your family friend's mother underage or forced into the relationship. That is the point. Don't confuse yourself.
Ah ah. Are people not reading the article or what? She was forced!!!!! And they did not use tinko tinko to determine who is underage mumu. It is determined by how much the body is developed and has the ability to carry out some functions. Chai!
OmGod!
As d old fools only plan is dis early marriage without proper " alignment" so to speak na so d young girl go plan all of una old fools death...
So let 18yr old boy or close to her age marry her as that wud curb d 2 teenagers' sexual propensities to themselves alone NOT papa de papa
Under age
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