girl forced to marry dies while giving birth

[JeanneVictoria 55]

She was just a baby. What suffering she must have endured. Breaks my heart

[meowmeowmeow 1]

:(

[Sofiyya 1,687]

The Yemeni parliament tried in February to pass a law, setting the minimum marriage age at 17. But the measure has not reached the president because many parliamentarians argued it violates sharia, or Islamic law, which does not stipulate a minimum age.

Sharia stipulates comon sense. If this practice didn't advantage men, there would be more of that applied.

[waleed's girl 0]

its the parents dumb a** fault. there is just no excuse, for this a poor little girls life thrown away like that. She would think her parents would know best for her but i guess her parents are not really people but animals, even animals are not like that and give away there young like its worth nothing. if her parents knew better this little girl would be home study right now so she can have a bright and better life. this is just sad......allah wa kaber!

AMMAN, Jordan (CNN) -- A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, died during a painful childbirth that also killed her baby, a children's rights group said Monday.

Fawziya Ammodi struggled for three days in labor, before dying of severe bleeding at a hospital on Friday, said the Seyaj Organization for the Protection of Children.

"Although the cause of her death was lack of medical care, the real case was the lack of education in Yemen and the fact that child marriages keep happening," said Seyaj President Ahmed al-Qureshi.

Born into an impoverished family in Hodeidah, Fawziya was forced to drop out of school and married off to a 24-year-old man last year, al-Qureshi said.

Child brides are commonplace in Yemen, especially in the Red Sea Coast where tribal customs hold sway. Hodeidah is the fourth largest city in Yemen and an important port.

More than half of all young Yemeni girls are married off before the age of 18 -- many times to older men, some with more than one wife, a study by Sanaa University found.

While it was not immediately known why Fawziya's parents married her off, the reasons vary. Sometimes, financially-strapped parents offer up their daughters for hefty dowries.

Marriage means the girls are no longer a financial or moral burden to their parents. And often, parents will extract a promise from the husband to wait until the girl is older to consummate the marriage.

The issue of Yemeni child brides came to the forefront in 2008 with 10-year-old Nujood Ali.

She was pulled out of school and married to a man who beat and raped her within weeks of the ceremony.

To escape, Nujood hailed a taxi -- the first time in her life -- to get across town to the central courthouse where she sat on a bench and demanded to see a judge.

After a well-publicized trial, she was granted a divorce.

The Yemeni parliament tried in February to pass a law, setting the minimum marriage age at 17. But the measure has not reached the president because many parliamentarians argued it violates sharia, or Islamic law, which does not stipulate a minimum age.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/14/yemen...eath/index.html

[Der Bücherwurm 1]

I read this in Gulf News the other day. I feel sorry for these little girls. Children should not be forced into marriages, forced to have sex and then forced to give birth to children when they are still children themselves. I really don't see how grown 'men' can be attracted to little girls. Nor do I understand a culture that values the lives of women and girls so little that parents couldn't care less what happens to their daughters.

[kaibigan 8]

in my own opinion this is a human rights violation

and child abuse..

i know it will affect childs whole behavior when she gets old.

i feel bad for this news. i hope the yemen government will help

to save children from early marriage

and educate the people that force marriage or

marrying a child is violation of her right to live fairly.

[SaadBell 0]

The whole thing is disturbing and nasty, having sex with a child is wrong on all levels.