We Must Put an End to Child Brides in Turkey

Turkey raised the minimum marriage age to 17 in 2007, but now one of the countries with the highest child marriage rate in Europe. The statutory age is 17 years old, but according to the "special circumstances" law, family members can apply to the court to agree to legally marry a child younger than legal age. However, what is regarded as a "special case" is quite ambiguous. Turkey has enacted legislation to protect children, but indeed a myriad of underage girls are married to their families.

I call this book "American Children's Bride", but I may explain most of the brides we will meet on these pages as teenagers and teenagers today. However, from the moment it entered the vocabulary of America, the term "child's bride" is often applied to people in their teens and 20s. For example, Priscilla Beaulieux Presley biographer called her her "child's bride" book, but Priscilla got married with Elvis Presley at the age of 21 (she has already started dating with him for 14 years). This sentence contains discomfort that Americans feel about getting married, even if these young people may not be this or that "child." This book is a history of when and how this discomfort can occur and how it can last.

A child's bride makes us feel that hella is not comfortable. Strange to say, the bride and children are not the reason for our skin to crawl - when I saw kids doing "weddings", "boyfriends", "girlfriends" in class, I They never feel cold. Indeed, a couple who they encounter when they were children, fall in love, and also together twenty years later are often regarded as super cute. The reason that children and brides are already terrible is the terrible harmful power imbalance. This is an adult man with a young girl. I know that this is messed up. When the other party is more simple and there are few experiences of life and relationships, there is almost always a force imbalance. "Teaching", "Teaching", "Knowing what is best" is the operation and pressure of others

Every 2 seconds, girls become children's brides. According to Girls Not Brides, 15 million girls get married before they are 18 years old. If you do not do anything, 41,000 girls will be produced each day and 2 billion girls will get married by 2050. Let 's join the fight against child' s marriage. We want to enter school instead of marriage. # Endchildmarriage # girlsnotbrides #support girlchildeducation In Niger, 77% of women between the ages of 20 and 49 get married, and more than half of the girls' husbands are over 10 years old. In Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 68% of the girls are married at the age of 18 and 55% are married in Mali. In these countries, most girls get married before 18 years old.