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Old 10-17-2007, 08:38 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Default Re: Hazrat Ayesha's Age at Marriage.

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Originally Posted by Jana View Post
NOw see there we can see young gals as young as age of 12 or 13 having sexual relations with boys now no matter they are not married legally but the actions are the same which married people perfrom so here in this case though they dont produce kids but are going through all such process of married life so what you say about this ???
Does this not affect them psychologically ???
If than why dont anyone question this practice
I would say that teens of that age having sex is just as condemnable and troubling - no proper sense of repercussions, risks, consequences you may have to live the rest of your life with. Of course I am generalizing, but I do believe that the majority of kids of that age are not mature enough to be dealing with "sex", let alone the entire gamut of issues that come with marriage.

And a disclaimer to everyone, I am not trying to present this as a huge issue that bedevils the Muslim world - child marriages occur in almost every culture, and indeed the rates of young teen sex in the West present a huge problem as well.

So lets please keep the, "this culture does this, and that culture does that" comments out of the discussion please (none so far, so thats a good thing).

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