Child Brides & Child Sex Trafficking
There is nothing that can prepare you for when you to receive a written article back from someone who is a child bride victim, has eight children, and is still a child-learned-mother. I did not expect to ever come across a child bride in my life. In doing this project, I had to hold back a lot of feelings and emotions, and although we were not face-to-face, I wanted to cry. There is nothing okay about a child bride or child sex trafficking. There is nothing okay with a parent selling their child for money because “she’s an extra daughter.”
How do you feel knowing that within My Life As A Woman: World Edition, in a pick of 1,500 women randomly, that I would across not one, but two children brides, both of whom were married at such a young age, not even 10 years old, but somehow, they had to grow up with this child abuse, raised by a man they barely knew, to become his wife, in reality, his servant, and have his children, to lock her in to serve him and the children. These female children are hopeless to do anything about it, and somehow the years pass, and no one is any wiser. No governments step in. No leaders seem to care. And the parents definitely do not care, as it is “one less daughter” they have to worry about.
There is nothing right with a child bride, not old enough to make her decisions, not old enough to have her period, not old enough to even know what sexy or sex is, and yet, forced to be the bride of a man two or three times her age, because of a poor family, who had no choice, but to pay so that they could live another day. So before you can even blame the family for what they’ve done, ask yourself what you would’ve done in such a desperate situation, especially in a world where girls have less value because the country needs male soldiers, not little girls.
This is our world. This is your world. It is the world you are living in. It is not specific to one country. It is not specific to the Muslim, Arab, or Indian world. It is happening in your country. These is innocent human beings being forced into modern-day slavery without you even knowing and living amongst you outside of your bubble. It hurts to read that a child had babies before she was no longer a baby herself, and what knowledge and wisdom could she possibly possess that could have taught her about her period? Or that she could have used protection to prevent herself from being pregnant? Or that she would be sentenced to a lifetime as a servant mother and wife.
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Sex trafficking and child brides are going to happen in 2021 and will to continue to exist so long as there is a demand for it. As long as we continue to make pedophilia a norm, silence those with the truth, which we cannot allow, more innocent children will not have the same chance that your children got to have with you.
I could not speak to these women like they were children. They were adults, now grown up, in their 20s, with a crazy yet true story to tell. How do you even begin to prepare yourself to read about a child being sold by her parents to a neighbor to marry him and have his children, and she’s not even 10 years old? How could a parent do this? Desperate times call for desperate measure. This book is not for the ones who cannot handle truth. This book asks you to do something. It’s not an easy read at all. The parts I wrote are probably the easiest — and most boring — to read. It is the truth of the world we live in.
It is horrifying to know that this is happening in the world. Imagine what she didn’t write, imagine the horrors she felt, believing this man, her husband, whom she is now divorced, is the godlike figure who supplies her with everything she would need because she has never learned how to support her children, but only feeds them upon the hand that feeds her, likely leaving her barely any bread crumbs after she’s fed her children. This can’t be happening. And yet, I didn’t hire fictional writers. I hired women to share their stories and tell the truth.
I am only the messenger and I am on a mission to share these stories with you.
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