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| Price of Child Brides Skyrockets to 300 Cows in South Sudan and Kenya | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 29 2018, 09:39 AM (62 Views) | |
| dcbl | Jun 29 2018, 09:39 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/06/28/price-child-brides-skyrockets-sudan-kenya/ An extensive report published by Thomson Reuters Foundation on Wednesday finds that the price of a child bride in eastern Africa, particularly South Sudan and Kenya, has skyrocketed as families seek ways to avoid starvation and ensure their children have food and shelter. The trading of child brides for a dowry of cattle or goats has long been a common practice in Africa, despite many states on the continent outlawing marriages before 18. Police in many of these countries do not enforce the law or seek out evidence that a child may have been traded into what often amounts to sexual slavery. Also endangering girls is the practice of families marrying them off to sexual abusers or rapists, who may sometimes deliberately target a girl for sexual assault knowing that they can later negotiate to marry the girl, keeping the abuse a secret. According to Thomson Reuters, which uses data gathered by the NGO Girls Not Brides, the average price of a child bride is around 30 cows but has recently reached up to 300 cows per girl. Prices have escalated most in areas affected by the ongoing civil war in South Sudan, or areas where starvation has triggered more acute levels of poverty in Kenya. |
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Republicans sign checks on the front, democrats sign them on the back…True story! | |
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| Robertr2000 | Jun 29 2018, 09:54 AM Post #2 |
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| "if that **** wins we'll all hang from nooses" | |
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| George Aligator | Jun 29 2018, 11:02 AM Post #3 |
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Here in God's Country, we have a similar issue with more and more female college graduates (and women are a majority of graduates, and a bigger majority of post-graduate degree students) being forced to defer having children or even marriage itself because of the staggering debt of their student loans. This is one of the economic forces driving America towards its majority-minority status by mid-century. |
| Conservatism is a social disease | |
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| PATruth | Jun 29 2018, 11:13 AM Post #4 |
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Yes, very similar, instead of cows the US government encourages massive student loan debt to attend government run colleges. Someone has to pay for the liberal elite's comfortable lifestyle. Maybe college should be paid for in cows? |
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"No. No he won't. We'll stop it." | |
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| Robertr2000 | Jun 29 2018, 11:22 AM Post #5 |
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Gender wage gap is a myth. |
| "if that **** wins we'll all hang from nooses" | |
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| clone | Jun 29 2018, 01:09 PM Post #6 |
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Director @ Center for Advanced Memetic Warfare
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No...we got too many fat chicks already...
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| dcbl | Jun 29 2018, 01:30 PM Post #7 |
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300 cows |
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Republicans sign checks on the front, democrats sign them on the back…True story! | |
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| clone | Jun 29 2018, 01:32 PM Post #8 |
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Director @ Center for Advanced Memetic Warfare
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I find this a little hard to believe....How many Sudanese or Kenyans have 300 cows...? |
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| Robert Stout | Jun 29 2018, 02:33 PM Post #9 |
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I never met a woman who was worth more than two cows................
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| _g R_ | Jun 29 2018, 02:40 PM Post #10 |
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In India a cow costs 300 women. |
| The real leftists are the silenced majority, the sleeping giant. | |
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