Just when you thinking things are looking forward for the United States, its going backward in other parts of the world. Take Iraq for example. Their all male, Shia religious parliament, wants to pass a bill that would legalize the age of consent for marriage of a female from 18 to 9. This means their trying to make it legal for a grown man whose probably in their 30s or 40s to marry a child. In the United States that’s called molestation and is a crime.
Human rights groups slam the bill as a way to take away rights from women because of the growing number of female led protests across the country. The Iraqi government are countering that claim on the basis that child marriages is a religious tradition. Although Iraq banned child marriages in the 1950s, the all male government wants to bring it back for some sick reason.
The United Nations in 2023, found that 28% of girls in the country married before the age of 18. This is completely disgusting. Hopefully this doesn’t get into fruition and the Iraqi people wake up!
