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Child marriage is in the news again, this time involving a 12-year old Saudi girl and an 80-year old Saudi man. Press reports said that the girl’s father arranged for her to be married to the 80-year old man in September 2009. Why would the father do that? Apparently it was because of the 85,000 riyals (US$ [...] A 10-year old girl, a fifth grader by most educational standard, ought to be enjoying school life. In Saudi Arabia, a 10-year old school girl found herself the subject of a marriage deal. The Saudi daily ‘Okaz reported in August this year that the girl’s father wanted to marry her elder daughter off to this 80-year old [...] |
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