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each year childhood and it's for an estimated fifteen million girls who marry before the age of eighteen according to the international center for research on women or i c r w. south asia has the largest concentration of child brides but early marriage is a global phenomenon girls living in poverty are more susceptible by marrying so young the research shows girls perpetuate the cycle of poverty unicef says they typically drop out of school and as a result face poor job prospects. and they don't have that and that s m son had a lead by then i'd never have it second to none of that is this. any less and it
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didn't make the n.f.l.'s committed to. this bill and mad did her. best to end. the syrian war has created a vortex of conditions such as displacement poverty and fears about the so-called honor and safety of girls that have prompted families to marry their daughters. who look ahead and. read that. when women of the cat help but that's that's. a whole can the arrival of. a good us who plants and then. when you think of home of aleppo tell me some of the special memories that stick in your mind and forget. what am ahead i had some of the secular.
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miss. it and. what was going on in aleppo before you and your family decided to leave what do you remember about that period of time and your wife. suddenly. made it look better plan than. seven the place should have been. the limit. so two thousand and twelve at the border of jordan and syria can you remember what the border was like at that time and have the suburbs. where you allow them to go
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and i'd be happy. to said adam cohen either he left home that's not life. yet he had nick and. make the move ahead. with. better. no one to move them in and a month to come and some of the second that was. going to be any of my looks like the model. and i believe in the side of. that and a synonym of the make the most i can feel the father buffy had. the linen. balance
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. but in truth on how to clinton. why do you think your family was the last family to leave you know a little amendment and ribs and how that is and not one of the few said by then the multiple am in a meeting want to play anyway and never brought a woman the custom of them that. made the loan and leave it. what do you remember about the day that you look here from. the mud line i am becoming the how it would let them tell me all. the while that there was no way no one man i'm sick of life things that in one of them said the sudden had to be all that then hit on a muslim and. suddenly when they had enough what an honest one of that and one of the names of the. name of that fellow with a bow bow tie. well you don't and i looked and i thought a little by little hayek and is that had six. so were you stuck at the border the syria jordan border for a bit before you were able to cross into jordan get in and she may end up that is
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that a or and i don't know if they had at the committee but i think a finnish embassy to most than that autonomous it i think is it's just i didn't and that is the one instance they had at the school so i had limited the given details but it was then the him is that how can you describe to us what that journey was like and then again a kidless not the man that i thought of as a dissident yet a whole without the savvy and it was sympathetic mufon it had the relevant capability there must have been how i lay a can of us not in the south but it well to us that it in my is a kind of film of the one that one should have little subtle oakley and if atlanta has said that. jordan is now home to more than six hundred fifty thousand syrian refugees unicef says there is an epidemic of child marriage among them and it's on the rise from the onset of the
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war in two thousand and eleven to the present child marriage has spiked from fifteen to thirty six percent in the kingdom european countries such as sweden and germany have welcomed large numbers of syrian refugees are also grappling with the dilemma permit child marriage or separate families. in jordan it was easy to find married girls but few wanted to speak with a journalist on camera they were worried about the repercussions of doing so without their husband's permission and the possible impact on their families. child brides commonly face domestic violence restricted movement and are often not given a voice when it comes to making decisions in the family. no matter the justifications families give the i.c. r.w. says child marriage is a violation of human rights and a form of violence against girls. but my found out she was
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engaged just shy of her fifteenth birthday the syrian refugee was living in a camp in jordan when her parents notified her that she was to marry another syrian refugee five years her senior. is the latest generation of child brides in her family. since fleeing their home in aleppo six years ago and her loved ones have endured fear hunger and now poverty the war forced her to drop out of school when she was ten years old she says if her just any had been different she would have loved to have been a doctor instead she is a sixteen year old wife and mother to a five month old daughter with another baby on the way i'd like to know what was the first moment you spoke to your parents about getting married. but i'm not in.
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so. that. he and the lech walesa comes. adding and. said. that. the senate. the senate and the woman. did they make a case as to why they thought it was important for you to get married and why they thought you would be ready at fifteen to get marry. when you said book why you school. who would. let. the do it in the mid what made you change your mind while five.
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then again. if they didn't. what was this like the first time that you met your husband so was smugglers the watch this so had a catalyst and they ended badly like that medic that tell us a little bit about your husband. for a month past. we stuff. stuff and mom is your husband syrian also what do you what is married life been like for you. when you have her you and his cinnamon mcquade's. and lemon.
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mash and though i'd stay slim one place. and how has it been for you. there was a place where you can reach that magic. can you think about some of the challenging times in the last year or so this one fifth of those. who was. the bad pad. so a family with my life and how did i love. math english in the. book and. with. what would have been some of the hardest parts about being a young mother for you would measure bethenny mad. my flat my feet have to amp to ten million. my family has to i
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mean much with this so we have. kittens and are you two working full time. every day. so it's a bit of a said to have been to the sled and have been. but this didn't happen in the animal but he'd. rather be in a. highly perhaps hula and in london. haeckelii ended with the chips to play in a show of kids and in plymouth and sad stuff. if the head of pendle dad said. tell me about the time that you're able to spend with your daughter. minnie our nation saw her alive. and added i will personally only bag attend her last or saturday i will say yes
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it's hard to leave your daughter at home isn't at stake in his theory and. has started. to slide on. by last do you have any regrets do you wish you'd waited to get married. then let her. be. to lend him full time different that how. is there anything about your life that you'd like to change or improve if you have been in school. got a second. and getting messed up all of a minute debility he said with tears. and has then settled but lucky in this kind of. second year in the plaza you can use and.
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he had a sexes in the civil but she had her own dad. to his have to blame an intimate that he any head. of he a lot of people would say that you're too young to marry you're too young to be a mother you're too young to be working ten hours a day seven days a week but you're saying that you're content with your life what would you say to them can you money to him to pay. you but you seem very emotional when you answer that but your earlier it seemed like you were saying i no one has the right to ask me this question or. give me their opinion why do you seem a little emotional when you answer this question. but that
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so you know have a daughter if your daughter came to you in fifteen years and asked to get married what would you say to her. why don't you set a city hope so. so i'm hearing from you you think that it's important for your daughter to finish her education and keith it seems just from talking to you that maybe that's the biggest regret that you have is that you were not able to continue your education can you tell me why i smoked a wily minion in him and did he did you invision that your life would be like this or if not did you what did you envision it would be like. then said the lesson to fit the lights. was thirteen
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years old when her parents first broached the topic of marriage with her after one year and gauge meant she was married at fourteen the relationship deteriorated quickly bola says her husband who was in his early twenty's never worked and he and his family treated her like a servant she considers herself lucky they couldn't have children a seventeen year old has spent the last year and a half navigating the jordanian court system trying to get a divorce but her husband and his family have disappeared and her case has stalled . thoughts. to live on him mcconnell has settled in any but the last letter has been in a head and i know one little thing. was this after your family had moved to amman so did you know your husband at the time when his family approached your family and
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had never seen him before and never spoken to him what about if it would make you what did you think when your parents first told you that first of all how old was your husband at the time sitting with us he's nineteen i don't know i was old in a christian a can all of us of a bad one how much older is he even knew who that i'm sister what did you think when your parents first told you that this man wanted to marry you now add them to the defense of the lesser of the list told second was that he made a handle on what. i stand. with the busy of a month in the fact that at the moment let it be that he met that even before you met him you were thinking must. tell me what your parents said about why they didn't think it was appropriate for you to get married at thirteen and no on a lid and they could have had a field. for one instant what was that period like korea you. did what that man i mean soldiers abusing his then i had an eclipse of the head but
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that was that's the wised up tell me a little bit about your husband. to lead a muslim of kindness to the cell as he can whip them in the lead one in the bathroom break them into the beds there was an instrument kind of. in a muslim bath and oh let's tell me what you remember about your wedding day love that that began in the woods at that end and how does the who had. a really good laugh we have today and it was taken ill is a kind of an event it was so you said you were excited about the idea of getting married in the wedding dress what do you remember that with but i love the others i'm at gladys to visit and i don't miss the way it's not been have done is a. bit. some of the stubbornness what was marriage like at first oh well that's why when god they gave them
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those in by the. way when you started the how to find were you living with your your husband was not working at the time were you living with your in-laws. up and looking forward vs but that who would live. those women had then been done by but at the home of diane that had so many of the let the cinema cinemas and i am a desert a female get away but he still wasn't working and you both weren't going to school correct. you said that you started to have problems shortly after you got married could you please tell us what was going on the n.f.l. and say it's not as of the hood net and live side of the month. and the hadley that's been needed and they say and nor is a devout of i don't want to misquote feeney and as if he can love field can was addicted to fall in love in that if one had them in my name a little bit in my own head i'm going i'm going to send it couldn't have
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a club full and then as i'm a little one in the for what i'm going to see it'll make them applause. so how did the mother in law make you feel you can deem him so deadly aged if the death was in the ghetto we had to. fall asleep so it was so how was your mother in law was meddling is what you're saying. is a bit of misrata and is the mom wobble was the mob was. and how did they make you feel one has to have them clash of this in their love the love for. that sort of love hate the model that i came on to form as the villain the i may of thought so that us all morning was working how did your husband react to all of this did he stand up for you love of the animal if not. for the that of the of the how did you feel knowing that the person that you had been engaged to for a year changed so drastically after you were married then is that the model that
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a small still who doesn't consent of the community and suddenly my deaf and had no one to get. a handle you know the one of them and no one had any. how soon after you got married did you realise that this was not going to work the lead. a was so the let's you know most that according to him by the way how it is done it is that the second. bad then blessedly my second honda is that a leg for themselves when i'm alone. i'm out of that the thought of a quick plane was a bit like. it is that a woman i am i was able to handle fired by the melissa had to deal with me and i stood a laser political love would have been better selected if only stuck with us to one of the end the second form why did i have a deal with names that could have been different than if that is a beautiful door he started and it will in order to deliver that feeling kind of
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all the usual i'm not willing to. give the three clinton elizabeth denisov ups of a defeat say his is a new one i'm going to call it a home our own bill was a good deal in the stone and all but the hell of it melissa told them on the second set of the other things that can the month of aid and account for any and. is of their father and their give them and the whole is a bit well it didn't really want to say. about if i'm missing the why of a daily. to say i'm about to flame. by dinner with the techno without one of the lip and what are you doing now with your life and what are your goals and your dreams i'm going to love this than i would settle for love so effective out in the. midst of a moment i did with your mother. why don't you go back to school now hell am in the order we need. and if someone at the mic to it
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because i haven't met any become clear filed you said you regretted dropping out of school at ten but wouldn't you rather use this time to go to school better yourself and also keep trying to get the door. at the lotus at the might have seen him in a little more see me again i'm a criminal. so. do you regret getting married so young. i couldn't manage about a third more of the what you know now that you wished you'd known. now why the fuck did so has to contest where there is that the unless a newcomer there are some words i was what would you say if you have a daughter someday would you allow your daughter to get married young like you instead why then with that there was a slit in one of them and seven hey i forgot to know is there was damage motherfucker below what and what would you say to other young girls who are
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thinking about marrying we don't internationally as well as been given any of the had bass have to put the death of because then it went up the line for the land where the rock that is the head were lowered i have no limit of the death human love of them laughing this only will. and i had this head of his there was a person lied so was my head of america. hell i mean if they're bad then he has their eyes and hair that's going to have a ted offices that are pretty.
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