What I found most shocking about this article was that many Yemeni girls are married at an extremely young age. The one young girl in the article was married at 12 years old. When I was 12, I was thinking about what I was going to wear to the CYO dance on Friday, not about the fact that I would be married to a 30 year old in a few days. I think it is disturbing that girls that young are married off, and that their parents generally support it.
Reading this article made me so grateful for the life I live. A 17 or 18 year old Yemeni girl would be covered head to toe in the traditional black garb. She would stay cooped up in her house all day, probably making sure everything was just right for her husband, who would have total control over her. She would not be allowed to speak her opinions, let alone admit that she had any at all. In my life, I am free to dress how I please and think what I want to think. I have no intentions of marrying anytime soon, and even when I do marry, I will not be treated like a slave by my husband. I am fortunate that I will be able to go to college and get a job doing whatever I want, unafraid to leave my house each day and be independent. Overall, I am thankful that I do not have to live the life of a young Yemeni woman. I hope that the situation of women in Yemen gets better, because women do not deserve to be treated like they are not even human beings.
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