I Was Forced to Marry. In Iraq, Nine-Year-Old Girls Could Share My Fate.
Yasmine Mohammed (bottom) was forced into marriage as a teenager. Her mother chose a husband who abused her. (All photos courtesy of the author)
Because I lived in Canada, I could escape my abusive husband. But thousands of wives across the world are trapped.
Recently, Iraq took a concrete step toward a heinous objective: to allow men to marry nine-year-old girls.
Is the world up in arms about this barbarity? Hardly.
Few in the West even realize that child marriage is already prevalent in Iraq. Though Iraqi law currently prohibits individuals under the age of 18 to wed, children as young as 15 can get married …
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