~ archived since 2018 ~

Report reveals that child grooms in Nepal are married as young as 7 years old and forced to drop out of school to support their new families

xynomaster

September 5, 2015

58 upvotes

/r/MensRights

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/09/05/boys-marrying-young-7-nepal-care

Download the post

Want to save the post for offline use on your device? Choose one of the download options below:

PDF TXT EPUB

Post Information

Title	Report reveals that child grooms in Nepal are married as young as 7 years old and forced to drop out of school to support their new families
Author	xynomaster
Upvotes	58
Comments	2
Date	September 5, 2015 4:33 AM UTC (8 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/3jpis9/report_reveals_that_child_grooms_in_nepal_are/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MensRights/report-reveals-that-child-grooms-in-nepal-are.971969 https://theredarchive.com/post/971969

Comments

[–]chocoboat 3 points4 points5 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

These backwards cultural traditions are beneficial to no one. It's hard to understand why people there keep forcing their young children to marry... but we're no better over here, forcing infant boys to have part of their genitals cut off. Traditions are hard to change.

At least in Nepal, they're marrying two children of the same age. It's hardly a beneficial practice, but at least they're not marrying 12 year old girls to adult men.

On a side note, it's very unusual to see a headline that specifically mentions boys like this. Typically the headline will be that girls are forced to marry (because this evokes a more emotional response from the reader), or they'll be unbiased and use the world "children". You hardly ever see boys as the focus of attention of a harmful act. It seems that the reason for this is because tomorrow is Father's Day in Australia.

[–]xynomaster[S] 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link