Girls At Risk Of Child Marriage …

[naomi24]

…. as half of local authorities fail to keep records

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/18/girls-at-risk-of-child-marriage-as-half-of-local-authorities-fail-to-keep-records

So while half the country is puffing hysterically over a man driving a couple of hundred miles, another effect of lockdown is ignored. Still, at least we can pat ourselves on the back for getting our priorities right.

[Peter Pedant]

god this has gone on for so long that
1) lockdown has ended
2) the girls most of them have reached maturity and or child bearing age or become grandmothers

there now follows another prolonged exhalation of hot air

[naomi24]

AH, if you’re unsure ask the editor.

PP, // there now follows another prolonged exhalation of hot air//

Spare us yet another of those - please.

[ladybirder]

What a pity this serious subject has degenerated to this.

[naomi24]

It's been so from the beginning of this thread, LB. The chances of successfully conducting a discussion here on a serious subject are diminishing by the day.

[Bobbisox1]

just reading the horrific ordeal of a 15 yr olds 'honour killing' granted not here in this country, terrible barbaric practices

[naomi24]

That's been known to happen here too, bobbi.

[Bobbisox1]

yes it has, I read a book but I can not recall the lady who wrote it, her name
she helps girls who flee from this type of thing often putting herself in danger as it happened to her, she lives in Manchester and the now Mayor, Andy Burnham has been very helpful to her

[Peter Pedant]

// What a pity this serious subject has degenerated to this.//
serious subject? forced marriage compared to covid?

38 000 deaths of Covid
and none so far as we know Forced marriage
and we are regretting this discussion is not serous
this HAS to be AB!

and forced inspection mentioned above
has been seriously ( ha!) debated before - -

https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/may/10/inspection-of-nunneries

here is a speech from a milord about inspection of premises by sage femes of a parish asking whether those inside were being held against their will
satirised by Trollope in his ecclesiastical novels

[naomi24]

//serious subject? forced marriage compared to covid? //

Who, apart from you, is comparing it to Covid? That is one of the most ignorant posts I've ever seen here.

[Bobbisox1]

Naomi, you’ve got PP at your heels, I have Gully, perhaps we could make a foursome up?
Haha, that would be not fun eh?

[naomi24]

Haha! Perish the thought, bobbi!