This sobering image, showing a 40-year-old groom sitting beside his 11-year-old future bride in Afghanistan, brought Stephanie Sinclair top honors in the annual Photo of the Year contest sponsored by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).-- Spiegel Online
What a lovely wedding picture! If you don’t like it, that means, as Leon De Winter explains, you are just a product of your cultural values...-- Arts and Letters Daily
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What a lovely wedding picture! If you don’t like it, that means, as Leon De Winter explains, you are just a product of your cultural values...
Taken aesthetically, the picture may be pleasing but isn't the association with child-brides and exploited children troubling?
(I can't seem to find the De Winter's piece, by the way.)
I'm sure that there is some historical reason why 40-year old men marry 11-year old girls but...shouldn't we try to establish a universal human code regarding the status of children(not necessarily a Christian or Western morality)?
Haven't we already?
UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child
The child shall be protected against all forms of neglect, cruelty and exploitation. He shall not be the subject of traffic, in any form.
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