What you should know about child marriage

Child marriage is one of the crimes committed against young girls, a blatant violation of human rights, the killing of childhood's innocence, and an outcry of the nations for rights and freedoms.
Just as the recruitment of children is a violation of the rights of male children, child marriage is a violation of the rights of female children.
But child marriage is the greater crime, because it happens in every country.
No country is free of this phenomenon, which kills human rights, especially in developing countries.
Because the girl is sold and raped in full view and hearing of the world.
She is sold and taken by force on her parents' orders, planned and carried out by two parties in a commercial deal “
Its danger and its scale are as great as nations, because the girl represents half of society and will be responsible for raising the coming generations; any violation against her threatens the future of the coming generations, and she passes her experience on to her children, and so the disasters follow one after another.
Child marriage has become like a virus spreading between generations. How many girls weep and ache with despair, wishing only to finish their studies and end this marriage, and how many girls die from early pregnancy or childbirth because their weak bodies are not able to bear children, give birth or carry a pregnancy. No society can deny the danger of this phenomenon, which has killed the meaning of innocence and childhood
No one has the right to kill a girl through marriage. This phenomenon has claimed many victims in the generations before us, and it still kills and destroys the fabric of society.
And most bitter of all, this hateful phenomenon has several causes, the most important being uncivilised and illogical customs and traditions. Our fathers have become victims of these wrong customs, which have killed girls and are still killing more and more. Fathers believe that marrying off a girl at a young age protects her honour and her future and saves her from spinsterhood, forgetting that marriage kills her future, destroys her life, deprives her of education and contributes to society's backwardness.
And poverty is nothing but an excuse for these marriages: marrying off a girl for money is child trafficking, where the buyer is the groom and the seller is the father, and this is the bitter truth that society ignores.
If only we knew how dangerous it is, we would not have gambled with our children's lives: depriving young girls of their parents' tenderness causes them to break down psychologically and emotionally.
When parents reach old age and need their children's help, they are met with ingratitude, because their daughters remember the suffering they went through in childhood because of these marriages. The mental image of any girl who suffered from her husband's injustice or was deprived of education is not easily erased and stays with her all her life; then the parents' repeated apologies to their daughters for this marriage will be of no use, and they are left with a guilty conscience, because of its grave consequences for society.
Whereas girls who have completed their education and reached the legal age become more devoted to their parents, because they are proud of the patience their parents showed and the responsibility they bore in raising them, completing their education and resisting wrong customs and traditions, and the family becomes the most united, proud, close-knit and loving of families.
Think with us: if a child raises a child (a minor raising a minor), society becomes immature in mind and body. As the famous saying goes, (A mother is a school: prepare her well and you prepare a people of good stock)
It is enough, for example, that we give our children mothers of a high level of progress, refinement, culture, intellect and thought, so that we have children who come out of pioneering schools, and this cannot possibly be found in girls who are children.
As for having a mother who is a minor for one's children, it is like choosing for one's son a school whose teachers are children. Who would accept that the mother of his children be a child? And if he accepts, let him not dream of creative, mature children he can be proud of.
If society is raised by children, we will have a backward society and a long delay in progress, civilisation and refinement.
And societies today have no shortage of diseases, disabilities and crowded hospitals.
Most minors give birth to physically deformed children, because their bodies are not fully mature and cannot nourish the baby in the womb. This brings a great deal of suffering to the parents, who bear greater responsibility and worries for treatment, follow-up and costs, and a greater burden on society and the state.

