These stories always make me a bit mental, this idea of young girls getting married off to old men in certain countries. I find it so provincial and ludicrous and it says a lot about a society that would even allow for something like this to happen. I want to respect all societies and cultures and customs but some things are just retarded and stupid and illiterate and asinine and ridiculous and you just look at these people and expect them to start swinging from trees when you hear things like this. Because obviously, they don’t have fully developed human brains. And I’m sorry if that’s offensive to say, but that is just how I see stuff like this.
But I was reading the New York Times and I saw this story of the 12 year old girl in Riyadh and how her mother dropped a petition to get the girl divorced from her 80 year old husband. The child bride was exchanged for a “large dowry.” And the mother dropped the divorce petition (the mother was acting as the girl’s legal representative) after she (the mother) reconciled with her (the mother’s) estranged husband. 
So all of a sudden, just because she reconciled with her husband, it’s okay for her daughter to marry an 80 year old. The only stipulation the mother has at this point is for the girl to finish school, before, I guess, the marriage gets consummated.
Yuck.
What’s wrong with these people? The only comfort I get is that, I say to myself, well, hopefully, the old baboon bozo will be dead by the time the kid graduates from high school. Terrible thing to say, perhaps. But I don’t really care. This arrangement is obscene and they all should be ashamed of themselves.
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I believe we would call this pedophilia here and he would be in jail, along with the mother who sold her daughter.
I’m with you, cultural norms or not, this is disgusting.
Lisa, it’s good to know that it’s not me. I wondered if something was wrong with me that I reacted so vicerally to this. It’s the worse kind of filth to me, things like this. But for many it’s business as usual. I am puzzled by the fact that in 2010 there are people in the world who routinely do this to their young children. It is DISGUSTING.