https://www.global-briefing.org/2011/10/too-much-too-young/ Telephone: +44 1223 488814 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:15:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 https://www.global-briefing.org/2011/10/too-much-too-young/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:15:50 +0000 http://www.global-briefing.org/?p=4290#comment-99 Do not forget it happens in the UK too & the critical issue is the educational level of the parent not the daughter.

]]> https://www.global-briefing.org/2011/10/too-much-too-young/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:16:44 +0000 http://www.global-briefing.org/?p=4290#comment-98 This change has taken a long time. Stopping forced and early marriage should help to boost literacy rates and be a huge change to basic human rights but what are the other contributing factors? Will parents send girls to school because they can’t marry them off early or will they follow their tradition by keeping girls at home to run the household or learn skills to help them run their future homes? I think governments are underestimating what it will take to alter a cultures deeply ingrained beliefs. It took around 100 years to ban foot-binding in China and that was a deforming ritual.

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