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дети рожают детей (she rapped about her friends in Afghanistan, who often came to school with bruised faces and broken hearts after long nights of arguing with their families. They would beg their parents not to sell them, not to marry them off, to let them decide their own future. But to no avail. One by one, she watched her friends disappear to get married and have children. "Children having children," she adds. She says she saw girls as young as 12 married off to much older men. While Afghan civil law says that a girl cannot marry until she is 16, or 15 with her father's consent, the United Nations claims that some 15% of Afghan females are married before age 15. Of all Afghan marriages combined, roughly 60 to 80% of them are forced, according to the United Nations, citing numbers from the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission; CNN Alex_Odeychuk) |
