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MissMillie

(38,589 posts) Tue Nov 26, 2013, 02:50 PM Nov 2013

NPR on child marriages: a great listen/read

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/11/25/245973216/can-child-marriages-be-stopped

"When they see a girl child, in our country, you don't think of anything else but marriage," says Faith Phiri, a Malawian trying to change such attitudes. Five years ago she created the nonprofit Girls Empowerment Network to challenge the complex mix of culture, economics and sexism that drives child marriage.

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NPR on child marriages: a great listen/read (Original Post) MissMillie Nov 2013 OP

I can't read stuff like this get the red out Nov 2013 #1

get the red out

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1. I can't read stuff like this

Reply to MissMillie (Original post)

Tue Nov 26, 2013, 02:54 PM

Nov 2013

without wanting a lot of men in the world dead.

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