Monday 23
We practiced our Europe map.
We then watched the rest of the video that was talking about this girl that lived in Afghanistan she was only 11 years old and she had to get married at that time with a man that is over 25 years older than her. But before all of this she had to start working at the age of 3 and she did not ever stop she had to hold her younger siblings on her back until they could walk on there own. Her mother was very sad when she had her she put her on the side of her and cried for a long time because she didn't want a girl because she didn't want her to go through everything but she had to. She was married at age 11 and after the wedding she said "He put his seed in me" she was only 11 years old and by the time she was 12 she had a health baby boy and she promised herself that she would stand up against everyone and go to school and do what everyone said she couldn't and she did she didn't care if she would die because of it. She just knew that there would be more girls like her and she would be a legod.
Then people did their presentation it was about young marriage. They should girls that were married at a very very young age when the man that she married was old enough to be her father or her grand father. When she was only 5-17. Most girls don't want to get married but they are forced to by their parents and if they keep on refusing then they could die or get beaten. Some girls want to do it because they think that it will give them a better life. Most of the girls just go with everything. The really young girls that haven't gone through puberty yet stay with her family until they go through it. Then they go and live with her husband.
Tuesday 24
We discussed how Turkey shot down a Russian airplane they said it was like a stab in the back because we are all working on trying to fight ISIS.
We then practiced our Europe map.
Then people did their presentation they talked about the education with the girls. Most girls can't go to school and in the united states the girls who go to school get married while they are middle aged. The education that girls get is very important in other countries that would be to the girls. Most of them get married off and they can no longer attend school so then they get very little education. After they get married they get pregnant and they could die from it because they are so young. But the baby can have lots of birth defects. Plus the mother has a really high chance of of getting STDs. Plus mothers want a boy because they bring in money but girls make parents go into poverty. There are little girls that are 5 years old and they get married they haven't gone through puberty yet but when they do they have to go and live with her husband and they get beaten a lot. There is a lot of girls who die young because of having STDs or having a baby or getting killed by her husband. In the countries that this happens it is illegal but it happens so much that they almost have given up on it. There was a young girl who was married to a man who was 3 times older than her and he beat her all the time so one day she went to court and asked for a divorce which is really frowned upon and her father disowned her but her second mother gave her the right to go and eventually she was set free. They showed some short videos on some girls who shared their thoughts on child marriage. They all said that some kill themselves or they run away or they will get killed.
Wednesday 25
I was gone.
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