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This year, an estimated 15 million school-age girls will become child brides, forced into marriage against their will.
We can do more to end child labor, child marriage, child trafficking, and discrimination against girls, by not only demanding the proper policing of domestic laws, but also by establishing a new International Children’s Court, buttressed by a credible reporting and sanctions system.
Such a court should have the capacity to receive and investigate individual complaints, the power to monitor independently the enforcement of laws, and the resources to devote to investigations into relevant areas, including child labor, child marriage, child slavery, genital mutilation, and child rape.
Such research could provide compelling evidence to support compulsory universal education as the ideal mechanism not just for ending educational exclusion, but also for bringing an end to child labor and trafficking, early marriage, and discrimination against girls.
And Abenomics 2.0 may not succeed, not least because young people, unconvinced that they can support larger families, are increasingly delaying marriage and children.
Financial support, such as low-interest loans for newlyweds, could also promote marriage and childbirth.
In the recent presidential election, a large turnout carried Carlos Alvarado Quesada to victory with more than 60% of the vote, against an opponent who would have rolled back longstanding commitments to human rights by restricting gay marriage.
Daniels and her aggressive attorney are fearless toward Trump, on whose behalf Cohen arranged to pay her $130,000 shortly before the election to keep quiet about her one-time liaison with Trump, which occurred early in his marriage to Melania Trump and four months after the birth of his son, Barron.
(Jared Kushner can be left out of this discussion, because the only reason for his presence in the White House is his marriage to Trump’s daughter, Ivanka.)
But there is a war of liberation that remains to be won worldwide – against child labor, child marriage, child trafficking, and discrimination against girls.
Michelle Obama delivered an emotional address about how Trump’s behavior had shaken her, speaking in a way that Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, cannot because of the complicated history of her own marriage.
Both countries needed new recipes for revival and growth, and turned to each other in a marriage of convenience.
That was not the first lottery marriage in today’s China, and it surely will not be the last.
Today’s invisible victims are refugee children holed up in tents, shacks, and hovels who will never enjoy a first day at school; they are the millions of 9-12-year-olds condemned to child labor, and the millions of young girls destined for child marriage and denied an education simply because of their gender.
The “wisdom of our ancestors” fallacy has often been invoked in debates over same-sex marriage.
When a family’s income is insufficient to pay school fees for every child, girls are typically denied an education, owing to the traditional belief that marriage is a girl’s final destiny.
Consider the campaign for child-marriage-free zones, which began with schoolgirls in 20 areas of Bangladesh uniting to fight against child marriage.
The success of these groups, led by Plan International, has forced governments to toughen laws against child marriage, and – as in Pakistan’s Sindh province – beef up enforcement and policing.
Yousafzai and Satyarthi would undoubtedly point to thousands of others like them who are protesting against child marriage, labor, and trafficking.
Friedan’s ideas spoke to a generation of women who were starting to view paid work as something more than a temporary break between adolescence and marriage, and were frustrated by society’s insistence that the only source of meaning in their lives should be their role as housewives.
But women who work are much more likely to adopt feminist-inspired agendas and to reject traditional ideas about marriage.
Increases in women’s power and resources are most threatening to family stability in societies marked by gender inequality, where successful women often rebel against marriage.
In countries such as Japan, Italy, and Singapore, where the terms of marriage remain favorable to men, and women have a hard time combining work and family, working women postpone marriage and motherhood much longer than in the US, leading to declines in birth rates that threaten these societies’ future.
In the past, when a stay-at-home wife went to work, the chance that her marriage would dissolve increased.
Of course, marriage will never again be as stable or predictable as when women lacked alternatives.
In poorer countries, women’s access to paid labor is a better predictor of children’s well-being than the stability of marriage.
Not so long ago, issues such as the environment, the balance of work versus leisure in daily life, and the role of marriage, abortion, and other family concerns were secondary political disputes, as politicians fought over who would receive what share of a nation's wealth.
A small but significant example of this is the United Kingdom’s recent debate in Parliament of a bill recognizing the right to same-sex marriage, which follows a decision taken in France this spring to legalize same-sex marriage.
Indeed, the UK is something of a latecomer: thirteen countries already allow gay marriage, and the usually conservative current US Supreme Court recently struck down the “Defense of Marriage Act,” adopted in 1996 explicitly to ban gay marriages, and a law prohibiting gay marriage in California.
Only in 2004 were British gays allowed to form “civil partnerships” – relationships with the same legal status as marriage, but denied the title.
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