‘It put an end to my childhood’: the hidden scandal of US child marriage

Child marriage is an issue many young girls are forced to deal with. Many ordinary people learning about such terrifying stories try to react and decide to help innocent girls in any way. Although getting married at an early age is thought to be abnormal, yet no reasonable actions haven’t been taken by the government of the US to prevent it. Surprisingly, there are many views on such a problem, as some people don’t consider it a somewhat bad and concerning issue. Let me examine some points on this topic.

There’s no doubt little girls are not supposed to marry old men as it might lead to crucial consequences. Firstly, in many cases presented in the article girls are to get married against their will, as they got pregnant because of a rape. Therefore, when these marriages are official and legal, all rapes happening afterwards become legal too, and there’s no way out. Secondly, child marriage leaves no childhood to the victims, which mostly lead to many kinds of diseases girls undergo. For instance, cancer, heart attacks, problems with mental health-psychiatric disorders, etc. Moreover, most girls drop out of schools and can’t work afterwards as they’re unable to study and find a good job while undergoing such tough moments of their lives which are really hard to overcome.

Many women having coped with such a problem-or just the ones who want to help-try to do their best to make government notice it and take some actions. However, the outcome is usually worse than it is expected to be. Many males don’t consider it to be a problem as they believe “if a girl gets pregnant, she’s got to get married”, which is quite controversial as it was done against their will. It happens just because representatives of the government are unwilling to change the law and bring out such a topic for a discussion for they think little girls are not old enough to take part in such events by telling their stories and make representatives change their minds, but old enough to get married-which is even more controversial.

All in all, child marriage is something women try to fight against, although it seems rather hard to convince authorities that such an issue needs a discussion and a solution in the end. Little girls are not to blame, as they don’t even decide anything because of their young age; so, people around who are not indifferent try to do the most to help them, although it doesn’t always lead to a great outcome.

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