Every two seconds, one child bride is being married off, based on the statistics of GirlsNotBrides.org. At least 15 million girls below the legal age are forced to marry every year.
Indeed, every child deserves a proper childhood – full of love, play, and a good education. When girls under the age of 18 get married off to their older suitors, they are robbed of a basic human right.
Their physical, emotional and mental development is in danger of being completely ruined when they become someone’s child bride.
They become dependent on their much older husbands and never get the chance to develop the skills needed to be self-sufficient.
Isn’t that what being mature means – to be able to provide for yourself?
No little girl is ready to be a wife or a mother. Unfortunately, this problem still exists.
This 12-year-old girl was one of the unlucky ones who became a mother too soon in her life.
In Xuzhou City Central Hospital in China, a 40-year-old man brought his pregnant wife for a check up. According to the man, his wife was 20-years-old. But the doctors made the horrifying discovery about the man's wife who 3 months pregnant. The doctors found out that she was only 12-years-old.
Despite the man's insistence that his wife was already of legal age, the doctors knew it was a lie.
"It’s obvious she is just a child, and certainly not anywhere near 20 years old," said one staff member.
Reportedly, the discovery angered the man. News quoted his statements, "I took her here to be examined just do your job. Stop asking so many questions."
Indeed, every child deserves a proper childhood – full of love, play, and a good education. When girls under the age of 18 get married off to their older suitors, they are robbed of a basic human right.
Their physical, emotional and mental development is in danger of being completely ruined when they become someone’s child bride.
They become dependent on their much older husbands and never get the chance to develop the skills needed to be self-sufficient.
Isn’t that what being mature means – to be able to provide for yourself?
No little girl is ready to be a wife or a mother. Unfortunately, this problem still exists.
This 12-year-old girl was one of the unlucky ones who became a mother too soon in her life.
In Xuzhou City Central Hospital in China, a 40-year-old man brought his pregnant wife for a check up. According to the man, his wife was 20-years-old. But the doctors made the horrifying discovery about the man's wife who 3 months pregnant. The doctors found out that she was only 12-years-old.
Despite the man's insistence that his wife was already of legal age, the doctors knew it was a lie.
"It’s obvious she is just a child, and certainly not anywhere near 20 years old," said one staff member.
Reportedly, the discovery angered the man. News quoted his statements, "I took her here to be examined just do your job. Stop asking so many questions."
