Familienpolitik

When I blogged about the little Yemeni girl who filed for divorce from her 30-year-old husband by herself here, the story hadn’t been picked up by many major news outlets.  Now the New York Times has an in-depth story on how that girl and another are changing the way Yemenis look at child marriage.
“Voices are [...]

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A friend passed on this article from the Yemen Times that AlterNet referenced in one of their blogs. It’s a disturbing story of what marriage and sex can mean to other governments and families. The girl would like to take her father to court for forcing her to marry a 30-year-old man, who [...]

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