29.Millions of Young Girls Forced Into Marriage

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130313-child-brides-marriage-women-sinclair-photography/?source=hp_dl3_news_child_brides_2130314

Ever Since photographer Stephanie Sinclair started working for the Chicago Tribune, she has been sent to Iraq to cover the start of a war. After moving to Iraq she became a freelancer photographer and in 2009 became a full member of VII , contributing regularly to National Geographic , she is known for speaking uo for child brides. through her works of documenting child marriage for over a decade has raised awareness and helped get rid of the ignorance of the world's citizens and leaders.Due to large poverty and cultural traditions such marriages are arranged by family memebrs but, "the physical and emotional consequences can be life shattering, even fatal." Its is known that one our of nine girls in developing countries are getting married before reaching the age 15. According to United Nations, if nothing changese by 2020 there will be about 14.2 millions of girls per year becoming a child bride. It has to be acknowledged that these young brides are getting married against their will, they also have dreams of having a normal life, receiving education, playing with friends and have a full adolescence. Not just that but these marriages gets  rid of these girl's innocence. child marriage also involves other serious cases that should be solves such as poverty, disease, maternal morality rates, infant morality and violence against women. As the speaker of CSW says , "Let's be honest, when an eight-year-old has sex with a 20-something-year old, that's rape. It is child rape. It's something we cannot be okay with." it is serious , it's not something to be looked at so lightly. approaches are need to adress these issues young brides are facing. such as education, young girld should be kept in school as long as they can and have to right to. It is essential to find a way to help young girls that are already brides, giving financial incentitives to ask families to allow these girls to continue their schooling educations and provide them with vocacional training so that they can have more say in their lives. especially providing them with quality medical treatments for young girls giving birth at the age of 14. these poor girls are needing a long term solution in their lives. a female Yemen Gynecologists said , "When the girls in your country are at the beginning of their lives, the girls in our country are at the end of their lives." Inspired by Stephanie Sinclair the voices of these young brides have been heard and due to her documentation, there are many organizations and growing movements aiming to end child marriage.

This article clearly bring out the worst of our society of young girls at the age of 8 having unwanted relationship with 20 something year old man. The autor of the article describes well what Stephanie Sinclair promotes in her documentations of these young brides. the autor does a good job of representing the voice that Sinclair wants to be for these girls. He makes sure to put in quotations on what people of importance says about this issues he compares how the girls that are victims in these cases lives to girls who have a normal healthy adolescence and how this problem is leading into bigger issues that could be resolved by only being able to solve young brides marriages. He cleary stated out the point that Sinclair wanted to share and states all the ways in which this issue could be set such as giving them financial provisions and especially mentioning the health issues these girls are put up with. Overall the author did a outstading job on presenting who Stephanie Sinclair is and what she wanted to show through her documentation and interview , pulled everything together in a simple and direct manner.