On Wednesday
a teenager from Saudi Arabia has been granted a divorce from a 70 year old man.
The man said he was fooled by the family into paying $200, 00 but then taking
the daughter back. The commission has said that they were fighting and then she
ran way to her family. There is now a law in Saudi Arabia for a minimum age for
marriage. There has always been a push for the law ion recent years but religious
schools have fought against that. The marriage made many human rights groups and
activists outraged. One if the groups voiced a concern about not only the age
difference, but the circumstance of the marriage.
I think this story is really sad. IN the article it also
mentioned the man claimed that he was only 70 and that the girl was 25. The commissioned
has said that the girl is only 15 and that the man could be as old as the age
of 86. In the article it didn’t mention at all what the parents thought of the
marriage or if they were concerned at all about their daughter. So I do agree that
maybe she was sold for just money and that it was not for a marriage at all.
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