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Whether their marriage of convenience will lead to an enduring union – or, as George Soros predicts, a threat to world peace – remains to be seen.
In recent years, aside from Berlusconi himself, other divorcés like Centrist Catholic Party Leader Pier Ferdinando Casini and Parliament Speaker Gianfranco Fini could easily deliver passionate speeches in the morning on the importance of the traditional family unit and the sacredness of marriage, attend a touching audience with the Pope in the afternoon, and then rush off in the evening to their unmarried partners and mothers of their latest offspring.
Students, Not BridesLONDON – A few weeks ago in Mozambique, 19-year-old Rosanna told me, “If I could give one message to other young girls, it would be to stay in education, and out of marriage.”
The link between education and marriage is essential.
Indeed, the more I speak to girls like Rosanna, who were wrenched out of childhood and married before the age of 18, the more I am convinced of the inverse relationship between the prevalence of child marriage and access to education.
When she found out that she was pregnant, marriage became inevitable – and so, it seemed, did dropping out of school.
If Niger, for example, were to end child marriage by 2030, the combination of higher educational attainment and lower fertility rates would leave the country $25 billion richer than it was in 2015.
Seen in this light, ending child marriage and improving education for girls is a no-brainer.
Yet only nine developing countries have developed national strategies to end child marriage.
Meanwhile, 15 million girls under the age of 18 are married each year – that is a marriage every two seconds.
Parents might decide that they would rather put their daughters in the perceived “safety” of marriage, instead of exposing them to these risks.
Recognizing the link between child marriage and education should be central to developing countries’ development strategies.
But education often gets much higher billing than child marriage.
The failure to integrate measures to tackle child marriage into development programs hindered progress on six of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which guided global development efforts from 2000 to 2015.
Last year, when world leaders adopted the Sustainable Development Goals to succeed the MDGs, they included targets for both education (to ensure that all children “complete free, equitable, and quality primary and secondary education”) and child marriage (to eliminate “all harmful practices” against girls and women, “such as child, early, and forced marriage”).
Only with a holistic approach – which integrates protections against child marriage, equitable educational opportunities, adolescent health, and poverty reduction – can we ensure that girls and women worldwide have the opportunity to fulfill their potential, and thus to contribute positively to their societies.
We all need to encourage governments around the world to fulfill their promises to end child marriage and improve girls’ access to education.
Third-world farmers get a boost to their income, while first-world consumers get to feel virtuous: a marriage made in heaven.
They did not see their struggle as a cultural or ideological clash between men and women, but rather as a very practical effort to live free from violence and sexual assault, forced child marriage and bride-burning, and legal exclusion from parity.
For example, pre-modern Europe believed that a woman who had sex before marriage might carry the imprint of her lover within her, so that her child born in wedlock would resemble the earlier lover, rather than the husband.
The alternative to thinking about European integration simply as a way of generating wealth and prosperity frequently analogizes it to a marriage.
In the late 1980’s, for example, then-European Commission President Jacques Delors, raising the prospect of a two-speed Europe, suggested that one or two countries might need a “different kind of marriage contract.”
The marriage analogy was used initially to signal that the European relationship was an exclusive one.
But marriage can be a fraught institution (as Strauss-Kahn may know better than most).
The British economic journalist Martin Wolf thinks of Europe as a marriage kept together only by the high cost of divorce.
Others see it as a sham marriage.
Traditional marriage vows entail a commitment that binds the partners through changing circumstances: for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health.
Even if the marriage does not make the partners better off, they still need to stick with it.
The problem was that the Europeans did not understand what marriage really meant and why they should want to get married.
The unhappy marriage analogy for Europe’s current malaise, while depressing, is helpful.
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