Child Marriage 

I hate when people say it's a culture thing so we should respect it. Culture can change over the years and should change when it involves harming others especially children.

Man: *marries a child* Also man: *gets mad at child for not being able to handle child birth or household duties only adults can manage*

"Child Marriage is tradition" No, It's torture for the child. edit: please stop fighting when did this blow up

I am currently pregnant with a baby girl and all my relatives can talk about is how she’s just gonna get married at a young age and leave us. I cannot believe people still have those kind of mindsets. They need to understand that our generation is not the same. We have opportunities and we can get our girls educated and they can make their own decisions. Girls are not burden. They are blessings. We need to treat our girls right and teach them to be independent.

I am an indian. And tell u what this also happens india. Ofcourse there aren't many but it still exists in some rural areas. I just hope someday this world would be free from this disgusting shit called child marriage.

The fact that the bear seems to represent a childhood that was literally taken from the mother at a young age is sad, but when the mother gave her daughter her own bear that was in much better condition it showed how the mom was going to give her daughter a better childhood

They are literally sick. This type of man deserves to go to jail. Plz girls if someone is doing this to you even your father raise your voice. Nobody has the right to treat you like this.

“It’s a cultural belief” no..it’s a torture for the women

I hate when society finds it okay when a guy is 10+ older than girl marries her it seen as acceptable but if a women 10+ older than guy marries him it seen as taboo like what a hypocrite society. Also I hate this child marriage concept which is sad still going on nowadays somewhere in some rural area where they don't even see how childhood gets destroyed but also at same they will hate their children dating someone #SocietyIsVeryHypocrite

No matter the age it's still wrong to be forced over your own consent, especially when you're in no ready condition for it.

My mom got married at 19 while my dad was in his late 30s and had me a few months later. Growing up, I noticed their marriage wasn't the best. Now I'm 17 and she's a single mother doing her best to raise me and my other siblings :)

Shocking part is ... this goes unreported. Say no to child marriage, do everything possible to stop it.

My mom got married at age of 12 years old, and she got pregnant at the same year while she’s studying, she kept studying till she finished college! That’s always motivate me to keep going… to make her proud of me! Love you mama💓

Being a Pakistani, This honestly breaks my heart and scares me

Sigh... This is really sad. The ending is beautiful

Whats so awful about this is the many people who believe menstraution means it’s time to be married/have children. I started my period at 10 and I can never imagine having kids at that age. I hope the idea of child marriage is soon made illegal world wide because it really is one of the most traumatic experiences one could ever go through.

I just hate child marrige. They does'nt want a wife for their son, instead they wanted a maid who would do all their work. Marrige is just an excuse for slavelry. This happens in india also. Every teenager should study, play and grow up. Not for this child marrige shit 😡😡.

My family’s from Afghanistan, child marriage wasn’t a common thing, up until the Taliban rule. It’s sad to see these degenerate changes that are occurring during their rule.

Normally I respect any culture no matter how different or strange it is. But let's face it, this is one tradition that no one should respect or encourage. We're all still human regardless of culture. And children are still children.

I don't understand why they get their children married at such a young age that age is to study and play not to marry

My grandmother was married at 15 and she had a beautiful life 🎇. It makes me irritated when she told me the works she have done in my age😬I don't even wash my own plates🙄and she managed a family in my age😱. I will work to stop the child marriages in future✋️

I can’t understand how anyone could do that to a child...

Some cultural aspects are not cultural aspects: they're monstrosities. This needs to stop.

saw this video on my reccomended and decided to watch it. My grandmother was an orphan when she got married, she was 8. my mother got married at 17. I am 17 now and i can feel their pain in my blood, the futures they had to sacrifice for mine. It is a harsh reminder that I must not fail in life and have to change cultural norms. I would like to find the one for me independently, rather than find a stranger double of my age.

Extraordinary concept.....Women makes our society while Men runs it...so respect women not as a opposite gender but as a human being....love and respect from India to its creator of this short film..

01:12 the hight difference 💀😭it honestly makes me so sad that these "traditions are supporting philodelphya 💙💙💙my love to all the people who had to go through this hell as a child

Sadly this is a problem in the US as well. Legally if a parent signs the paperwork a child at any age can be married to anyone.

Salute to that mother! She proved herself and overwhelmed against such a nasty thing in this society (child marriage) 👑💪🏻👌🏻👍🏻

There are two thousand people who disliked this video. Think about that for a second.

Your mother is a strong and beautiful woman; I am so glad you're getting things you both need for safety and independence right now, but I hope to find a way here to help things change there so that no one is ever stripped of their innocence and freedom like that again. Thank you for sharing this.

This is the world men would have if women let them. We as women must always fight to have equal rights and not be their playthings. It is a constant fight.

Culture does not mean accepting the unacceptable.

I'm currently pregnant. I don't know boy or girl. But I know I raised my baby as a good hearted human being

"When I asked for love,not knowing what else to ask for, he drew a youth of sixteen into the bedroom and closed the door. He didn't beat me but my sad woman-body felt so beaten." -Kamala Das-

For all those 74k likes, I recommend "The Breadwinner", it handle with this theme too and also is a great movie from an Irish studio that deserves more people to look at

Thank you for sharing this story. It's pretty unimaginable to most of us living in the west and it must be so tough. Know that there are people who care about you and that you deserve a love that isn't abusive and values you as an equal.

Following traditional practice just because it's tradition is irrational and often cruel. Child marriage is abhorrent in all circumstances and needs to stop.

I am not against young marriage. I was 16 when I got married by free will. I am however, against forced marriage. At any age.

Mother can do everything ❤️

I was so taken aback when i heard she got pregant at 14! She basically got raped and touched by a 40 yr old abusive man

My grandmother was married in the age of 14 and my grandmother's mother was married in the age of 8

My only criticism is that it was hard to read the subtitles.

Culture isn’t an excuse to marry children and make them wear hijabs/other coverings to avoid them being sexualized. Let children be children.

I went to class with a girl (she was my best friend from we were 5 )who got married at age 13, it broke my heart to loose my best friend like that! She was sent to her parents homeland , and I never saw her again........! I still pray for her in the church, so many years later!

My maasi was married at 16. When my grandfather and mamma went to see her with her in laws, he was devastated to see her washing clothes of 8 people in total and cooking food. She never did all those works back at home. That day she told my mom in laws dont search for a daughter in law, they want a machine ! Ladies! Please learn that having a family and daughter is a privilege, not everyone has that.

This story is really❤️ touching. Women's are not servants!

I’M 14!- BRO I CANT IMAGINE BEING PREGNANT RN- THAT WOULD BE HORRIBLE 😭 Honestly I wouldn’t even want to raise the child- and I don’t think id be able to make it even through the 9 months, because I have so much going on in my life that I’d probably end up accidentally killing the child or something 🐸

OMG, so heartbreaking 💔 It’s DISGRACEFUL the way women and girls are treated in those countries!! 😡😡

This is why I’m pro choice, so happy that she and her child survived the birth tho

In olden days this is the situations to all women's 😭😭🙏

Every mother wants to make her child successful in life ❤️

I'm crying , Ya Allah give the woman of Pakistan strength , we will never give up

Normal people: this is a bad thing you're doing please stop. Religious people: oN wHaT mOrAl bAsIs?

This is a good attempt. I'm sure it touched many hearts

I once had a college science professor tell us trauma due to sexual assault at a young age was a cultural phenomenon. He tried to use this as an excuse to say that where pedophelia is normal, it just is, and people only have trauma because the culture they were raised in determines what is right and wrong. That type of moral relativism is nonsense, and he should be ashamed of himself. Sex with a child is never okay, and it’s crazy I even have to make that clear for some “educated” people.

Child marriage is a sin

We don't have to respect bad parts of other people's culture. We have to respect them for being a part of the culture as a whole, but there's no reason to support child marriage and betrothal. for example, Indian culture is vast and appreciated for many things such as healing, Ayurveda, etc. Child marriage is something that nobody should respect. I get that the people in this video didn't really have a choice because of finances but its terrible to force a young girl into adulthood. Child marriage is something that is still happening today. However, i don't want people to think that it's limited to Asia. Things like this have been happening all over the world. The difference is that a majority of western countries stopped this practice a bit earlier than Asians. I just wanted to speak on this topic because there are parts of my own culture that i absolutely despise and parts of it that i love. Overall, im proud to be Indian. Thankfully, culture is always changing, so i have hope for the future.

People say that child at 11 years old get married off because they get their period so it’s a sign that they are ready for pregnancy. No their not. Yes in the mental sens they’re not ready at all but also in the physical sense. There are girls who lost their womb due to a young pregnancy, people younger than 20 who became very sick, who even died because while the logic was there, it wouldn’t work in reality. My mother for example got a severe chronic injury in her back that’ll never heal by giving birth to me, and she was 22 or 23 so imagine a girl of 14. This is straight up abuse. Not only are they making a child work, they’re also exploiting her organs, they’re destroying her health for selfish purposes. Not to say its clearly pedophelia, especially if the girl marries a man who can be her father. Why do they treat woman and man differently? I want to ask the parents, so your son is your child but your daughter is not? They all came in this world the same way, why do you treat your daughter like a thing and your son like human? If you don’t consider every one of your child a treasure, you shouldn’t even be allowed to get children.

Child marriage is a kind of child slavery 😔😣😣😣

Pedophilia is not a cultural thing. It is abhorrent, barbaric, victimizing and outright should be punishable in every country.

The worst part is, they always marry them off to old men. I can’t imagine the trauma of being 14 and marrying a man of 45.🥺 I really can’t.

When my sister was celebrating her 15th birthday I heard from many of my relatives arguing about 'who my sister have to marry' in advance (after two years). 😑😑😑😑😑 and they decided to make her marriage with a 28 years old bald man 😑😑😑 anyway her parents refused 😊 her parents got very upset that the way they talked about the girl like a livestock 😑😑 so they broke their own relative's relation and settled in a very far city 😑😑😑 These old generation people aren't accepting the world is developing and the up coming generation will not accept to have the same life style has these old people had 😑😑😑😑😑

Im pakistani and I fully agree with the message that we have to stop this “Cultural belief.” Its not a cultural belief, these girls are married when theyre kids to old men and theyre forced to have these life styles which objectify them and I am out raged. I am not agreeing with parents who think this is okay. Kids cannot get married. Kids should not have to go through this. Nobody should have to go through this.

Child marriage is literally child slavery and it's sad to realize that such thing still exists

The "child at 14" bit actually had me in shock for a minute. I'm 25 and still a virgin! What the fuck is wrong with people who think making someone that age pregnant is okay?! I'm extremely impressed by the narrator's mother for putting up with that abusive bullshit for so long and then taking the necessary steps to break the cycle! I wish them all the best!

I am from India..and to be honest,the rural areas here aren't much different is this respect..child marriage is common in rural areas here as well..they give excuses cause they don't want to feed a belly that won't earn money but those girls can't earn money cause you keep them illiterate to control them in the first place.and there is the dowry system..those families consider girls as burden cause they would have to pay good dowry to get her married.and the list is so long..the gender discrimination is endless..boils my blood.

I’m an early childhood educator, and the subject of child marriage always makes me want to cry because I know so very, very well how important it is for a child to have the time and space to progress developmentally in a supportive setting. Child marriage steals all that away from them.

I was married at the age of 13 and my husband is 11years elder than me . They allowed me to study but they didn't realize that I was so small to hold the responsibility of the child

My mother used to threaten me at the age of 12 and onwards that she would get me married if I didn't do as she asked me to because " she had every right to do so" so I did everything she asked me to no matter how it would affect my physical or mental health, now I'm an independent woman and soul and still unmarried lol I'm not interested in getting married even rn because unmarried or not , I'm a complete woman and no one can stop me from achieving my goals and dreams❤

Love how people call child marriage cultural and that we should respect it like it isnt straight up pedophilia (this is sarcasm in case anyone is mistaken) Thats a literal child. Why are you marrying her off to have her own child when her body isnt even ready???? "Shes menstruating shes an adult now" UM NO????? thats not how it works Godammit

They wanted that girl to marry their son because they wanted someone to do the works.... Are women servants or something... 😲

Even now many parents think that daughters are burden, but they don't understand that daughters are blessings. 😔😔

My grandmother got married she was 12.. my mom got married at 17.. but my mom is a strong woman she took decision to send me and my brother to live in Karachi at my grandmothers home so that we could get good education and she wanted us to study and become independent before marriage..now I have just completed my MBBS and have become a doctor..Alhumdulillah.. 😊😇

A great person once said "Culture doesn't make people. People make culture." I felt that it is absolutely true; we should continue to doing some things like respecting others, etc. but stop what is wrong and painful like child marriage. Hats off to the brave mother and her child.

Repeat after me,"Women are not your property!"

My grandma "met" her first husband when she was 12, then as part of their marriage agreement she attended school 2 more years, then married a month after graduation. My mom had kids early on, so my grandma was raising me, my siblings, and her own kids. She refused to let my mother sell us into marriage, she demanded that all of us finish highschool, was extremely proud when everyone in my generation attended college (not all of us graduated), and before she died she was always telling all of her grandkids how proud and happy she was that we all were living lives that she had never even dreamed of hoping for and that all of us girls were dating/choosing who we marry. I never understood it growing up, but as an adult and realizing that a lot of our cultural traditions aren't the average experience for people; especially in America, I've really grown to understand and appreciate everything

I'm an Immigrant, but I would've most likely had the same fate if my parents never moved. The rest of my family however, still lives in my homeland. My closest cousin there, who's around 15 years old- recently got married to this 40 year old man, whos wife had passed away. His excuse was that he needed someone to take care of his son, who's a toddler. He couldn't himself, since It's a cultural belief that men shouldn't nurture their children until puberty. And so he married his close friends teenage daughter, my cousin. She's already a wife, and a mother for her step son.. she was stripped of her fucking childhood, and It's just so disappointing that we live in such a world. Put an end to child marriages!

I was surprised when I heard that she became pregnant at 14

*_Why people say_* ------ 1. *Girl should not say loudly* 2. *boys should not Cry like girl* 3. *Don't go outside after evening, you're not boy* 4. *At your age girl Became Mother and did all work of home,And you!* 5. *only boy can do tough work* 6. *Don't do this, don't do that* 7. *Teach Laundry, cook, it's just your Importance* 8. *Don't be over smart by going school,you must have to go to Other house after marriage* 9. *Don't talk while boys or older Person talking* 😑😑😑 please let us fly... We don't wanna stuck on cave:(

My mother got married at 17 and my great grandma (who's still alive) got married at 7 (means what the hell!!) But she's really good, she supports our studies I love them both thanks mom and granny for understanding me...❤️

The dislikes are men who love making women's life miserable .

Ah yes beautiful culture of letting your daughter get married at a young age to old man and dealing with parenthood in a young age with zero help and experience making their life miserable when it already is. So beautiful

It is disappointing to see that people even disliked this video. It is a beautiful video that tells the reality of the world, and must reach a greater audience!!!

I hate the term "child marriage". It sounds like two children get married because they want to. In reality grown old men abuse little girls.

Forget Gender. Treat everybody equally!

No child at the age of 13 or 14 should have to go through child birth that age or sex for that matter. Most don’t even know HOW to have sex until that age. For a grown man to take advantage of such a young girl…who was taken care by her parents up until she was married….is so tragic. My heart goes out to all the girls and women who were affected by child marriages. I hope the future changes and that anyone directly affected have the space to heal

Once i heard a teacher say: "if its harmful to others tradition its not an excuse to keep doing it, not only because its tradition should be respected" and never forgot that

This still happens in Bangladesh, I have an aunt who’s 14 yrs old and her husband who’s my uncle is 30+ yrs old. In her wedding day I could tell she wasn’t very happy :( everyone was just telling her “why aren’t you happy it’s your wedding” but by her face I could understand what was going on inside her mind :(((

Now I'm 14 and it surprised me that when she was 14, she was pregnant.

My friend got married at 16 She got her first miscarriage at 17 She got twins at 19 both girls her husbands denied for baby girl Then tried for another baby she gave birth to girl again her husband again denied to accept girl baby Now she is single mother at 27 we are of same age But unfortunately i can see the pain in her eyes when she compares her life with me that i have freedom to do job, freedom to get marry as i want , freedom to go anywhere as i want. I am so Lucky to have my parents they are so modernized in this thoughts

Pedophilia should be punished by death

I can't imagine going through pregnancy as a 14 year old. That woman's mother was a very strong woman, and I'm so happy she got her daughter and herself away from that life.

This story touched my heart❤

Just want to remind everyone here that women in areas like this who speak up about their abuse and torture often get killed for it. They don’t have the same rights there. So instead of telling them to just speak up or report it, let’s stand in solidarity with them and always offer a place for them to run to if they need it.

My own grandmother was only 13 when she was wedded to my grandfather. Hours before their wedding, her relatives found her playing in a park with other kids. Even sadder part is that she was 14-15 when she bore her firstborn child, my uncle. And then she bore 9 more children and only 5 of them survived.

My mom married at the age of 18 and I am 14 and my mom always told me that u need to success in ur life ❣ love u mom

Mother is mother.....nothing replace her

I can only imagine her family congratulating her and her just wondering, “what’s going on?” Like my eyes widened when I read, “At 14, she had her first child” like FUCKING EXCUSE ME??? My heart breaks for her. I can’t imagine the pain that would bring.

This is one of the reasons I sometimes hate to be a girl.. Men treat us like their servants....

my father died when i was 10. last December my mom and aunt tried to marry me off to my own fuckimg cousin-- (he is already married twice my age and has 4 fucking daughters + he's a sociopath) --just for the sake of money and comfort but my brother stopped it. i just turned 16 this year and it's SO hard to deal with the trauma...my aunt also tried to marry me off when i 12 for the first time. I'm pretty sure my family would marry me off again when I'm 20-22 and now just the thought of being with a stranger and having any men touch me makes my body cold. i can't do anything other than to pray... i really appreciate it if read my story i just want to get this off of my chest.. Thank you.