Sadly many pedophiles, defend sex with children and I get many comments from them and down arrows because they are sexual predators who want pedophilia to be legalized.
When most Americans hear about child marriage, the news is typically related to k…
Sadly many pedophiles, defend sex with children and I get many comments from them and down arrows because they are sexual predators who want pedophilia to be legalized.
When most Americans hear about child marriage, the news is typically related to kids living in far away places like Thailand, India and Niger. But a series of new public reports released in February of this year reinvigorated an old call to action related to helping the girls and women who have fallen victim to child marriage in the United States. A place where many don’t even know the horrific act actually exists at “alarming” rates.
Sources estimate that roughly a quarter million children are forced to marry without their consent. And individual reports state that forced marriage has long been a problem in the United States due to government loopholes that allow parents to marry off their children at any age, according to Good magazine.
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An investigation done and presented by the Tahirih Justice Center cited that both Virginia and New York have children in the thousands being married off.
In the state of Virginia, almost 5,000 kids aged 13 and up were married between 2004 and 2014. And in New York almost 4,000 children were married between 2000 and 2010. The non-profit Unchained At Last has been following forced marriages among children and have reported that kids as young as 12 years of age are getting married to partners significantly older.
The organization has also spent time trying to stop child marriage in America and profiling stories of women and girls who have survived and/or escaped it.
Children and teenage girls are being forced into marriage! This is nothing short of Pedophilia!! Yet the practice is shockingly prevalent: One out of nine girls in developing countries will be married by age 15, according to the United Nations. A false stat that is much much much worse. Many parents sell their daughter off into marriages at shocking ages 6 years old is very common and younger. An estimated 14.2 million girls a year will become child brides by 2020 if nothing changes. These young children do not want to be married. They want normal lives. They want to play with their friends, they want to be educated, and they want to have a full adolescence. These marriages rob many girls of their innocence, many times before puberty, and this is something that as a global society we cannot tolerate. The bottom line is that child marriage isn't just harmful to the girls involved. It's at the root of so many other societal ills: poverty, disease, maternal mortality, infant mortality, violence against women. All of those are symptoms connected to the same problem. If you solve the child marriage problem, these other issues benefit as well. And as the speaker at last week's CSW event put it: Let's be honest, when an eight-year-old has sex with a 20-something-year old, that's rape. It is child rape. It's something we cannot be okay with. This is legalized Pedophilia. Child Rape....
