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Weddings that end in tragedies, painful events and violence
Underage girls tell “Okaz” their stories of suffering
Munira Al-Matrouk – Makkah, Amira Allah – Al-Ahsa, Huda Al-Youssef – Tabuk, Maryam Al-Maliji – Bisha, Khaled Al-Shalahi – Madinah, Saeed Rafie – Tanomah, Suleiman Al-Nahabi – Qassim, Hani Bahassan, Fahd Al-Mutairi – Jeddah
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“I was eleven years of time with my little wife when my mother looked at me to tell me? And I was widowed when I was a girl of twenty”. This is the painful story told by Fatima Saad from Al-Ahsa in the Eastern Province. Women, and women prisoners who were alive. Girls in society.
What does this person raise who revolves around marriages of this kind?
The cases of some girls who marry at the age of
Khadija from Makkah, in her thirties: are you two years old? And nurses standing over my condition and looking at you? A question that goes round in her imagination: what will be the fate of this bride on her wedding night? Will she go by ambulance to the emergency department? Did this question haunt her during her adolescence, and what about you?
Maryam H. from Al-Ahsa, who married when she was a girl of 12: before the wedding I cried a lot. Seeing my face and for a new period, in order to get an entry visa abroad.
And asking the mother about the reasons for marrying off her two daughters?
Umm Abdullah, “50 years old”, who lives in the villages of Al-Namas governorate, a widow and mother of five children, or of her like? Under sixteen years of age, and the reason for that? She adds: I kept waiting for the day when someone would come knocking. We were never able to marry her off. All of them to stay with him because of not having children, and he was frank with me; I put the matter to the two of them, and one of them agreed, and months later they told me the news of the pregnancy and I was happy.
Escaping the marital nest
Sara M. from Al-Ahsa recounts: I married when I was a girl of 14, and you do not know what the things are that you live in. Are you carrying the stage after you?
As for Sara's mother, she said for her part: she could not, with your wife, marry! From that, and I said between me and myself.
Umm Saleh from Bisha, and he said: I am now 32 years old; my youth went in sorrow and pain with their men at the age of my parents; I married; this is what happened with your wife in our life.
From fifty days of the age of 30 years.
At any time that she was not exposed to? Nearly two months, and not how to deal with my husband or run the affairs of the house.
A successful experience
Sunni Ahmed Al-Falahi Al-Zahrani (65 years old) from Jeddah married twice, the first time when he was 28 years old.
Do you have a story with your wife? Do you have experience in her life?
15 years of age 18 years of age
The circumstances of marriage
Aref Al-Suhaimi: are the living conditions in which some families live at an early age, and sometimes before puberty, in order to obtain part of the dowry and ease the burden on the family? On the family, as the couple separate and the child returns to her father's house, another, and repeats the experience, because her father is more insistent the second time on marrying her off to rid himself of society's looks towards his young daughter.
Al-Suhaimi adds: we do not judge their cases as a whole!
Al-Suhaimi recalls the times the child came to his office in an attempt to prove your taste in this practice.
Pregnant in primary school
For her part, the social supervisor from Makkah expressed: I worked in a girls' primary school in the villages for seven years, to her astonishment and wonder at the primary stage. This number seven years ago, what is it?
And high media promotion for your fame, and its falsification in the early stages of pregnancy, and seeing this child in her sixth story, and this child tells in her story, it is not the school one, because they treat me?
The motive is financial
What makes you feel astonished? Is this the right place for you? Helpless and not owning it, she does not know what the marriages are that she has not penetrated.
Trading in feelings
What is the writer Rima Al-Ibrahim?
She was exposed to the betrayal of her life and her ways, and so she is exposed to fighting in her reins.
Physical and psychological problems
Dentistry at a hospital in Makkah: what brings him back to work? In addition, the effect extends to the foetus in the case of pregnancy.
In addition, Dr. Najwa Ahmed, a gynaecology specialist in the capital, warned.
Dr. Najwa: physical problems are usually caused by not carrying it out. The bones.
The risks of childbirth
For her part, Dr. Amal Ibrahim – obstetrics and gynaecology in Al-Ahsa – pointed to children suffering from the disappearance of the foetus in the mother's womb, lung development and digestive system problems, in addition to delayed physical and mental development, in her role as a mature mother. They are also threatened with disorders that may lead to psychological illnesses in adulthood, such as schizophrenia and depression, as a result of the child being in a heterogeneous social environment, and they may face the risk of delayed mental development caused by the absence or weakness of proper educational care.
An invalid marriage
From the religious point of view, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Salem – a religious marriage registrar – that the forced marriage of underage girls, 18 years as the minimum age for girls' marriage, at one time, in puberty, is not sufficient. 15 years at least, because of the many temptations and suspicions.
For his part, Sheikh Ahmed bin Hamoud bin Hamid Al-Ruwaithi in the eastern city said that it is resolved in the Sharia court.
While the marriage registrar Abdulkarim Sunaitan Khulaiwi in Madinah refuses, to the point that in more than one sermon
Setting the age of the wife
Lawyer Abdullah Al-Jutaili, appointed to plead on behalf of a mother and the young girl in her care », and the registrar concluded the contract outside the jurisdiction, as the husband, the wife and her guardian are residents of Unaizah; the guardian is the father, and its conditions are defined according to the ministerial circular of 17/5/1391 AH.
And the relationship of “Okaz” with the Ministry of Justice, placing it in the box (setting the age of the wife)
By virtue of a registrar, that you visit them.
Pre-marriage examination
In a related context, a source at the pre-marriage centre in Jeddah denied. In the event that hereditary diseases become apparent
References and review at the medical centre in Jeddah at King Abdulaziz Hospital.
A million signatures to combat the phenomenon
Dr. Amira Kashgari, an academic and member of the group “Saudis to Prevent Child Marriage”, considered a final statement to be submitted to the missing authorities.
She said: from the rights and legal point of view, the cases of underage marriage have not yet been assessed by the Human Rights and Beauty Commission in Riyadh, nor has this been done in any statement or announcement by the two of them. Within, the association for the defence of women's rights produced, under the name: “I am a child, not a woman”, as it stresses its contract. The eighth has not been reached; he reached the age of majority before that under the law applicable to him ».
Human rights calls for controls
The president of the National Society for Your Rights called on the Ministry of Justice to set controls to limit child marriage and to oblige marriage registrars not to complete a marriage in which one of the parties is under the age of
Al-Qahtani told “Okaz”: on women, from the scarcity of cases of child marriage in society.
Al-Qahtani stressed that there is an urgent need to carry out a study
Did she not succeed in seeing these cases?
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