Recently in Saudi Arabia a 70 year old man and a 15 year old wed. According to the 70 year old the family of the 15 year old owed him a huge dowry (20,00 approximately) and claimed that the family said that she was 25 years old and not 15. In Saudi Arabia there is no laws on how old you can be to marry, so the marriage is legal, and there is nothing anyone can really do about it, even though this outraged many people in Saudi Arabia. The man was said to be lonely after his wife had recently passed, there was also said to be an altercation between the two and this made the 15 year old to run back home to her family.
This story was shocking for me to hear because this girl is younger than I am and she is married to a girl who is her grandfather’s age, I know they say that age is just a number but ew, that’s just gross and not only is it gross, it’s just not right, this girl hasn’t even got to live her life yet! She is 15 years old, a freshman in High School! Her husband should feel guilty for depriving her of her life as a teenager! She should be in school not taking care of her old husband who could probably die soon. What if the girl does end up getting attached? What is she going to do when he dies? What if they have children, he’s going to leave her with too much to handle. They have already had a rough start, she has already ran away from her husband and he’s is getting a lot of scrutiny for marrying a 15 year old girl anyway so why keep the marriage going? They are both going to be miserable, he should just let the family pay him back over time and let her grow up and be happy with someone her own age, instead of living a miserable life with a guy who is older than her own father. (348)
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