Blog #8

In the article “Too Young to Wed” written by Gorney, Cynthia published in the National Geographic. In this article she talks about a 15 and 13 year old about to get married when they were just old enough to understand what was happening. The grooms were on their way from their own village and they were supposed to show up high-spirited and drunk. In India it was risky to marry that young because it is illegal to marry under the age of 18. When they become married they are then living with the husband’s family and basically abandons their own families. Every culture is a little different with all the rules of the marriages, for example some villages do it between two individuals but others do it between the whole family.

This article to me was very busy with all the detail about all the different cultures and ages of all the family members who also live in the village. Some of the information could have been left out but at the same time it was interesting to learn about everything then have some missing points that lead to questions later on. The only question I would have is why the parents want their children to marry so young? I would think they would want to wait for them to be a little older to maybe understand things better so they don’t have so many questions when there older and it would possibly even help save some marriages. I would not enjoy my parents picking the man I want to marry especially at the age of 15.

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