Rhapsodysinger:
None heeds my pet peeve. Even though I have the likes of Jonathan Swift endorsing me. I have maintained that there are too many kids on this earth. Look wherever you will, there are just too many children swamping the place. They just will not leave us in peace. We have tried every imaginable torture on them but yet they won’t finish themselves off. We routinely abuse them, rape and sodomise them, make them work in sweatshops for hours, betray and beat them. Yet they refuse to die. Like Swift, I am a firm believer in cooking and eating them all up. That will sort out the hunger-issues faced by the poor and at least bring some calm to the world. Are we not tired of the incessant noise that kids make? IAfrica.com reports a clichéd issue is the blandest manner possible. Children in Mogadishu in Somalia are having a hard time — they are living off the streets, are being beating mercilessly; in short: they are being exploited. Well, there are two...
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Child marriages: Still a tradition in EthiopiaFrom: timesonline.co.uk
Post Date: 2008-05-17 13:52:04
Madkat70: Child marriages are still a tradition in Ethiopia. Young brides, even below 10 years of age, are married off to adolescent boys and thus the cycle of ignorance, poverty, health hazards continue. Even in the modern globalised world there are remote corners where people are uneducated and are not equipped with even a little education and knowledge to break a tradition which brings miseries to scores of little girls in their land.
Ninety percent of Ethiopian population lives in fa...
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