BBC's America First?

[Matata]

Looks to be an interesting series.



http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-41727495/why-does-the-us-have-so-many-child-brides

 

[Maria D]

I honestly had no idea. *sigh*

 

[Calliecake]

Wow I had no idea. I thought there were State laws regarding this.

 

[OoohShiny]

Is that not legalised paedophilia? lol

 

[kenny]

This is shameful.

It's bad enough how women are treated in America, but 11 year old girls?
Really!?!

 

[AGBF]

This video made me think of my poor grandmother. She had wanted to become a nurse, but her father had died and her mother had to take in laundry to make money. She was one of eight (?) girls .They had to carry laundry in baskets up and down stairs all around their town. When she was 13 she had to drop out of school to go to work in a factory, so she couldn't become a nurse. Then my grandfather, who was a little older, started to follow her in his car after church and court her. After being the oldest girl and caring for all her younger sisters, she got married (but at eighteen and had three daughters.

This was not a story of a child bride, but of no childhood due to work and poverty. My grandmother never got any of our names right the first time. She would call us each by her sisters' names and her daughters' names, seemingly at random, before settling on our name. When she called us it would sound like, "Come here, "MaryAnne-Josephine-Veronica-Helen-Debbie!" She really deserved a better life, but my grandfather was a wonderful husband to her and improved her life tremendously from what it was before she was married. Still. She had to run a household. She always wanted to have better grammar. She had not gone far in school and I remember correcting her grammar, which she professed to like, when I was a child. It was she and my grandfather who gave my mother her impeccable grammar by educating her as they did! She was also a fabulous woman in so many other ways!

Sorry to threadjack, but I had to. After all, it is 4 AM.

Deb