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The same is true of orthodox Jewish women who must shave their heads and wear wigs when they
marry.
The fact that Europeans can
marry
only one spouse is both a legal and a cultural norm.
The Chinese now have a generation of educated, empowered young women who are not sure whether they want to
marry
at all, owing to the constraints that a husband (and a mother-in-law) would place on their freedom.
South Korean women still drop out of the labor force when they
marry
or have children; only 38% of families have two wage earners (half the OECD average).
Fifteen-year-old Sahar Gul was forced to
marry
an older man who serves in the Afghan army.
There was also Gulnaz, a young woman who was jailed for adultery after being raped by a relative (she was recently released after a presidential pardon, but may be forced to
marry
her attacker).
So leprosy should not be grounds for denying anyone the right to marry, or for divorce; nor should it constitute grounds for separating a child from his or her parents.
At the same time, increased educational opportunities for girls and women, and low-cost contraceptives provided by family-planning services, would empower them to
marry
later and have fewer children.
Educated girls
marry
later, and are less susceptible to abuse by older men.
One that has been largely neglected in the debate about Piketty’s book is the tendency of the superrich to
marry
one another – an increasingly common phenomenon as more women join the group of high earners.
Simply put, women must be allowed to decide, free of coercion or violence, about their sexuality and health; if, when, and whom to marry; and whether and when to become a parent.
More than one-third of African girls
marry
before the age of 18, which threatens their health, truncates their education, and lowers their aspirations for the future.
The global public is outraged by the group’s violation of fundamental principles and sensibilities: the prohibition of slavery, the protection of personal integrity, the obligation to protect children, and the right of adolescent girls to obtain an education and choose when and whom to
marry.
The dowry tradition puts pressure on girls’ families to
marry
them early, leading to a preference for sons – and thus to sex-specific abortions targeting female fetuses.
In the developing world, one girl in seven is married by the age of 15; nearly half become mothers by the age of 18.Girls attending secondary school, by contrast, are much less likely to
marry
and bear children before reaching adulthood.
When women work outside the home, they are less likely to
marry
young or suffer abuse, and women generally invest more in their family’s future than men do.
He was no longer able to work, travel, choose his place of residence, buy or sell property, or even
marry.
Girls, Not BridesOXFORD – When Memory Banda’s younger sister was forced to
marry
at just 11 years old, Memory became determined to ensure that no more girls had to experience her sister’s fate.
She was forced to
marry
the father of her unplanned child, a man in his early 30s, and was burdened with all the responsibilities of adulthood.
Girls with secondary education are up to six times less likely to
marry
early compared to girls with little or no education.
Such clubs give girls the confidence and skills they need to take control of the major decisions in their lives – including whether, when, and whom they will
marry.
Then, last week, Jamal Khashoggi, an exiled Saudi journalist, vanished after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul to obtain a document confirming his divorce, so that he could
marry
a Turkish woman the next day.
While Fillon does not want to revoke same-sex couples’ legal right to marry, he opposes granting them the right to adopt children.
Hollande in MaliPARIS – While hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Paris against the right of homosexual couples to
marry
and adopt children, French troops were arriving in Mali to stop a coalition of Islamist and rebel forces from taking control of its capital, Bamako, and creating in the Sahel a sanctuary for terrorists.
Nineteen other countries (or regions of countries) – mostly in Europe and North and South America – now allow gay couples to
marry
legally.
The news in Sarkozy’s favored media outlet Journal du Dimanche that the couple plan to
marry
touched off a flurry of fevered speculation on when the happy event might occur.
If he really is as head-over-heels in love with Bruni as he claims, and plans to
marry
her imminently, why not take advantage of his upcoming trip to India and make this a wedding to remember?
Increasingly, young people around the world see the connection between the abductions in Nigeria, the rape and murder of young girls in India, so-called “honor killings” of Pakistani girls who
marry
against their families’ wishes, genital mutilation of girls across Africa, and child-trafficking for full-time work, often in slave-labor conditions.
Making “integration courses” and language instruction compulsory, prohibiting headscarves in schools, as in France, or restricting the rights of immigrants to
marry
foreigners, as in Denmark, are just some instances of coercive measures adopted in the name of supposedly universal liberal values.
Janissaries were not allowed to
marry
or to own property, which prevented them from developing loyalties outside of the imperial court.
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