Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Child Brides

Think it's tough to be you? Try being a Yemeni woman, where 50% of women are married before they are 18.

"An average of eight women die each day in Yemen due to child marriage, many of them in childbirth, according to the Arabic Sisters Forum."

And I don't have time to get a pedicure. Puts things in perspective, doesn't it?

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