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[plasticbags]

"Kidnapping young girls has long been part of the marriage custom in Ethiopia. The United Nations estimates that more than 70 percent of marriages in Ethiopia are by abduction, practiced in rural areas where most of the country's 71 million people live." Leave a comment

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[mwparenteau]

Oh damn! I've never heard of that.

[plasticbags]

yeah, it's insane and seems like a very common thing

[cfunk]

hey,
did you hear about the lions that saved a girl from being kidnapped?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/06/21/ethiopia.lions.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

but i don't know if its true or not, i mean, c'mon, little girls have to be the tastiest thing in the eyes of a lion. eh, who knows?

[plasticbags]

dude? Are your crazy? It's the same story...
shame shame, you did not read

[sherrisauce]

wow, I had no idea that shit like that happened. This world never ceses to amaze me, in both bad and good ways.

[plasticbags]

Yeah...and I think they said that 70% of married women (little girls) were married by force...I feel lucky and sad for my situation and I wonder what it must be like to be one of these girls. Not to say that I feel sorry for them, but I wonder what I would be like if my culture had those expextations on me. Maybe it's the norm, like how women were uncomfortable shoes for fashion?