Child brides sold for cows: The price of being a girl in South Sudan

Suzanne M. Hicks · Apr 24, 2019

Ana the Ist said:
How? Do educated girls suddenly get equal rights and job opportunities? Is she going to work on her tech startup for Google while finishing her thesis on nano-transistors?

She was traded for a cow. If we educate her, she'll probably be able to put that to use identifying various breeds of cattle and their respective values.

Yes, educated girls become empowered with opportunities. If you are uneducated and 14 years old; your experience and lack of education keeps you imprisoned. Think about it - how did you know that you had options? You were given opportunities to learn. A girl is likely to only know her village and worse yet, once married, to only know the man she has been married to you. She has zero opportunity to know anything else without an education. In the western world we actually see these situations as enslavement.

variant · Apr 24, 2019

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN said:
I'm guessing it stopped. Because it became illegal. Just like a lot of Christian religious stuff stopped.

Selling people eventually stopped in the west. We had to burn down a good portion of the south first though in this country, so it wasn't exactly easy.

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN · Apr 24, 2019

variant said:
Selling people eventually stopped in the west. We had to burn down a good portion of the south first though in this country, so it wasn't exactly easy.

I'm sure human sex slaves are still being sold in the united states..

mala · Apr 24, 2019

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN said:
I'm sure human sex slaves are still being sold in the united states..

roger kraft, owner of the patriots, would be able to confirm that for you.

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN · Apr 24, 2019

Suzanne M. Hicks said:
Yes, educated girls become empowered with opportunities. If you are uneducated and 14 years old; your experience and lack of education keeps you imprisoned. Think about it - how did you know that you had options? You were given opportunities to learn. A girl is likely to only know her village and worse yet, once married, to only know the man she has been married to you. She has zero opportunity to know anything else without an education. In the western world we actually see these situations as enslavement.

Are we talking about 3rd world countries. Where women don't matter at all.

JackRT · Apr 25, 2019

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN said:
I'm sure human sex slaves are still being sold in the united states..

There are an estimated 45 million plus slaves in the world today --- more than at any other time in history. In the USA the estimate is 400 thousand plus.

NnamAries · Apr 25, 2019

How callous people are, this is such devastating news.

variant · Apr 25, 2019

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN said:
I'm sure human sex slaves are still being sold in the united states..

Not legally.

redleghunter · Apr 25, 2019

Nithavela said:
My proposed solution: Kill all their cows.

That would be offensive to our Hindu friends.

redleghunter · Apr 25, 2019

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN said:
I'm sure human sex slaves are still being sold in the united states..

Illegally yes. And so much of it is coming over our southern border and ports.

Fighting Human Trafficking Across the U.S. - Mexico Border

redleghunter · Apr 25, 2019

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN said:
Are we talking about 3rd world countries. Where women don't matter at all.

Who are also sold to tribal lords who sell them to human traffickers who smuggle them into 1st world nations as sex workers and cheap labor.

Nithavela · Apr 26, 2019

redleghunter said:
That would be offensive to our Hindu friends.

Ill eat a burger to that.

redleghunter · Apr 26, 2019

Nithavela said:
Ill eat a burger to that.

Had a nice one today with crispy bacon and cheese. No fast food stuff. Nice greasy spoon joint.

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN · Apr 26, 2019

redleghunter said:
Illegally yes. And so much of it is coming over our southern border and ports.

Fighting Human Trafficking Across the U.S. - Mexico Border

It's not just the border of Mexico .I watched on the news about this happening to an American teenager. I sure it even happens in the religious states.

Ana the Ist · Apr 26, 2019

Suzanne M. Hicks said:
Yes, educated girls become empowered with opportunities. If you are uneducated and 14 years old; your experience and lack of education keeps you imprisoned. Think about it - how did you know that you had options? You were given opportunities to learn.

Aside from "opportunities to learn"...does it actually provide any opportunity to change her situation?

Knowledge is nice....but I don't really consider a girl who is more aware of the hopelessness of her situation that much better off than one that isn't.

Suzanne M. Hicks · May 15, 2019

JackRT said:
There are an estimated 45 million plus slaves in the world today --- more than at any other time in history. In the USA the estimate is 400 thousand plus.[/QUOTE

rjs330 · May 15, 2019

civilwarbuff said:
It is their culture, let them work it out.....just leave them alone......such hypocrisy from the leftist progressive crew......

You forget. The left is always trying to change culture these days.

rjs330 · May 15, 2019

Nithavela said:
You have a real deficit with reading comprehension, you know that?

Ok then, propose a solution.

rjs330 · May 15, 2019

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN said:
I do believe in the bible. It was common for men to pay the dad for their wife. I'm not sure why the Christians don't still do that.

Because we decided not to do that anymore. There was no biblical mandate for that to occur.

rjs330 · May 15, 2019

Oafman said:
But not as prosperous and powerful as it is now. And even back then, in the west, women were more involved in the economy than they are now in many of the poorest countries. Not being sold for cows etc. Also, 150 years ago was a period which followed the enlightenment and the industrial revolution, when the west was steaming ahead. Much of the world has caught up, and in most cases they have caught up as a result of empowering women.

Please show exactly how empowering women made us more prosperous than the simply advances that have been made due to the industrial revolution. Please give specific examples how empowering women caused the rest of the world to catch up.

I think it was the industrial revolution that brought the advances and not the empowering of women. I think as society grew and culture changed the empowering of women came from that. As freedom expanded more people saw all people needed more freedom. It was a good thing. But it didn't increase things like you say.

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