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2014-09-01 Afghanistan

8 Year Old Girl Married Off to 12 Year Old Boy

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Posted by Fred 2014-09-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Child marriages are, technically, against the law and the teachings of Islam

Technically, maybe. Practcally, not so much.

Posted by gorb 2014-09-01 02:00|| 2014-09-01 02:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Boy is way too young---how old was Muhammad when marrying Aisha?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-09-01 04:16|| 2014-09-01 04:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like a weird way to adopt an 8 year old.

The 12 year old says he just wants to be happy; clearly no one explained marriage to him.

Posted by Airandee 2014-09-01 06:42|| 2014-09-01 06:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like a weird way to adopt an 8 year old.

But in that part of the world a common enough way to acquire a house slavey and potential income stream, while the girl's father sees no evil as he rids himself of a burden.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-09-01 08:03|| 2014-09-01 08:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Good Question g(r)omgoru - and the answer is -

Presto !

Aisha was six or seven years old when she was married to Muhammad and nine when the marriage was consummated.

Posted by George Glose8807 2014-09-01 09:12|| 2014-09-01 09:12|| Front Page Top

#6 The correct answer was Mohommand was in his 50's and Aisha was 6-7 and the marriage was consummated when she was 8-9.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-09-01 12:11|| 2014-09-01 12:11|| Front Page Top

#7 The correct answer was Mohommand was in his 50's

See, the boy is too young!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-09-01 14:33|| 2014-09-01 14:33|| Front Page Top

#8 I suspect we are looking at this in the wrong way. We consider marriage as uniting a man and a woman (let's not get started on the recent permutations!). In tribal societies, marriage is a way of uniting two tribes.

As a side note, tribal relations also account for the popularity of cousin marriage - if you marry a cousin on your father's side, you are not spreading the wealth around or incurring more obligations. And yes, there are certain genetic consequences.

Posted by SteveS 2014-09-01 15:33|| 2014-09-01 15:33|| Front Page Top

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