Child bride, they should abolish such ridiculous tradition

You cannot really stop or abolish these things, not because it's legal in their state or they don't know any better. But we cannot truly meddle with other people's traditions and such. It's their people who needs to step up, just like that in that news. Remember that like how we'd like things to be in our 'business' we wouldn't want any other person to meddle with our 'business', right? It's the same with their customs and traditions. We cannot simply go there or do a signing in order to abolish these cultures or traditions. They or the people there should decide for themselves that they no longer want to do that. Further, whatever they'd been doing over the last couple of centuries cannot just be abolished because of 'education'. We are not actually helping if we're 'educating' people in areas where the facilities are not enough. For example, a few years back, several 'missionaries' began 'educating' the mountain people of our country. They showed them what the other countries were doing. Most of the mountain-people decided to leave the mountains in order to search for 'better lives' in the city. The end result? Crop supply are dwindling because nobody wants to farm anymore, they wanted to go to the 'city', then since jobs are scarce and laborers a lot, then the salaries and wages were brought down (due to demand and supply - economics). Therefore, education is not enough. You cannot teach a person to fish without showing him/her how to make the necessary tools. You cannot say that certain customs and traditions should be abolished because it's 'bad' when you cannot help them look for income or 'use' for their women, remember that these marriages were arranged because of lack of sources of funds. They wanted to make sure that their lives would be better both for the children and the parents, so they exchanged these 'agreements'. It has worked over the years, why should they change it because some foreigner say it's 'bad'? I know I would cause a lot of raised-brows with those statements, but what have we done in order to truly help instead of just merely accuse? Are we ready to help out the community so they wouldn't need to do these things that we consider 'bad'? If not, then let them decide that for their own. Let's mind our business and let them mind their businesses as well. Have a great MyLot experience ahead!

You cannot really stop or abolish these things, not because it's legal in their state or they don't know any better. But we cannot truly meddle with other people's traditions and such. It's their people who needs to step up, just like that in that news. Remember that like how we'd like things to be in our 'business' we wouldn't want any other person to meddle with our 'business', right? It's the same with their customs and traditions. We cannot simply go there or do a signing in order to abolish these cultures or traditions. They or the people there should decide for themselves that they no longer want to do that. Further, whatever they'd been doing over the last couple of centuries cannot just be abolished because of 'education'. We are not actually helping if we're 'educating' people in areas where the facilities are not enough. For example, a few years back, several 'missionaries' began 'educating' the mountain people of our country. They showed them what the other countries were doing. Most of the mountain-people decided to leave the mountains in order to search for 'better lives' in the city. The end result? Crop supply are dwindling because nobody wants to farm anymore, they wanted to go to the 'city', then since jobs are scarce and laborers a lot, then the salaries and wages were brought down (due to demand and supply - economics). Therefore, education is not enough. You cannot teach a person to fish without showing him/her how to make the necessary tools. You cannot say that certain customs and traditions should be abolished because it's 'bad' when you cannot help them look for income or 'use' for their women, remember that these marriages were arranged because of lack of sources of funds. They wanted to make sure that their lives would be better both for the children and the parents, so they exchanged these 'agreements'. It has worked over the years, why should they change it because some foreigner say it's 'bad'? I know I would cause a lot of raised-brows with those statements, but what have we done in order to truly help instead of just merely accuse? Are we ready to help out the community so they wouldn't need to do these things that we consider 'bad'? If not, then let them decide that for their own. Let's mind our business and let them mind their businesses as well. Have a great MyLot experience ahead!

I don't like that tradition too- but I also sympathize with the parents..maybe they are just so poor but "selling" their child like that isn't good either. maybe they should just give the future couple some time before marriage, get to know each other- see if they will like each other..also marry at a proper age.

This tradition is very bad as the girls who are at there early teens are needed to be taught and they are at the age where they are to be playing but they are married to a boy in the early teens or much older people.By doing this it is like putting life of the girl at stake.It also happens when two close friends want that their childrens should be married to each other and they marry them in the teens,so in this way they are doing wrong and the marriage is something that has to be done with the consent of the two who are getting married.

Oh, I had thought, this was a more common practice for families with higher status. So, they get to keep and even strengthen their riches and resources. As, for the poor, or lower social strata, they couldn't care less who they marry their children with. They'd be lucky, though, to find a rich groom for them.