A 12 year old Yemeni girl has died in childbirth.

[CTyankee]

This sad story at link here: http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/198789.php

She evidently bled to death after 3 days in labor. The baby was stillborn.

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. awful awful awful

[lurknomore]

23. Very disturbing story.

[EndersDame]

2. But she is in heaven now because she did not have an abortion

:sarcasm:

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. Both 12 year old and baby are in heaven now. What does a society gain from the sickness of allowing

40 year olds to rape 11 year olds?

[EndersDame]

I think anyone having sex with some one under 14 is rape

I have gone to school with girls who got pregnant at 12 and 13 and the family did not want them to have an abortion! I wouldn't use the term of "society" for any group of people that would allow 40 yos to rape 11 yos because that implies civilization

[get the red out]

16. +1

I don't think much of the human race when I read stories like this. I'm not sure if we were gone, that the planet couldn't easily evolve something better.

[Taverner]

6. Gawd smiles on us and doesn't smite us or something

It's all a bunch of fairy tales anyway...

[Sanity Claws]

3. Aren't you dying to know the age of the father?

She was probably just 11 years old when she was raped. My guess is that it was an adult male over 30 and this child was a second or third wife for the man. Yuck!

[Triana]

5. There is NO viable excuse for this kind of thing. NONE. n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. At that age, most girls are too small to give birth to a full-term baby safely

Socially sanctioned pedophilia is what it is. :cry:

Of course, in Renaissance Italy, the average age of marriage among the upper classes was 13, and the reason was that marriage was primarily a means of having sons to pass on the property to. However, the men wanted to make sure that any sons they had were really theirs, so they married 13-year-olds (and sometimes 12-year-olds) as a means of ensuring that their bride was a virgin.

Remember in Romeo and Juliet, where the Lady Capulet tells 14-year-old Juliet that she herself was already a mother when she was Juliet's age?

[CTyankee]

8. I think of my 11 year old granddaughter and thank god that this will not happen to her

or her sisters.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. And it does happen to girls in this country

Back when I was working with street kids in Portland, I overheard one of the girls saying, "Well, I had my first baby when I was twelve."

In such cases, it's usually Mom's boyfriend, a secret pedophile who seeks out single women with late elementary school to early teen daughters.

[CTyankee]

10. Yes, I know, but it wouldn't happen to my granddaughter. She lives in MA and

I know my daughter and son in law would protect her if anything happened. I know very well that there are girls in this country who are not as lucky.

[Odin2005]

15. A former classmate just recently got caught raping a 12 girl.

These people are sick! :puke:

[pnwmom]

21. Not in those numbers, and not with the approval of society. n/t

[flvegan]

11. Who the hell marries an 11 year old girl?

The article states that 25% of Yemeni women marry between the ages of 10 and 14. 10??!! Are you kidding me?

Call me an American prude if you must, but wft?

[CTyankee]

13. It's hard for us to believe it, but children ARE molested all the time all over the world.

That they do it there and call it "marriage" is the only difference.

[get the red out]

17. delete

[pnwmom]

20. Another significant difference: the people who do it there are not pariahs --

it's condoned and encouraged by their culture.

[Odin2005]

14. Sick, just sick, a bunch of pedophile sickos.

:puke: :cry:

[pnwmom]

19. It's culturally-condoned pedophilia. n/t

[LeftyMom]

22. Men who are scared shitless that they might not get a virgin if they wait until she's old enough to

actually enjoy it.

[Odin2005]

12. Misogynistic religious insanity kills.

:puke: :cry:

[get the red out]

18. Yes

And if the religious right in this society ever gets to go all they way in the direction they want, well, it's obvious.

[Maru Kitteh]

24. 11 yo babies having their wombs ripped out by child rapists is where my cultural relativism comes to

a screeching halt.