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11.15.2011

The price of young life in Afghanistan.

     Two teenagers in Afghanistan were sitting in a car together, when a mob pulled the young couple out of the car and started beating them. In Afghanistan, it has been a tradition for 1,00 of years for the father to sell his daughter for marriage. People are not allowed to pick who they want to get married too. The father of the son pays the girls father, and they get married. They boy and girl have no input on their marriage, which is very wrong and unfair to the couple getting married.
     I believe people should be able to pick who they marry. It shouldn't be left up to the father's to decide, and young girls shouldn't be selled as propety. The young couple that were pulled out of the car should not be facing any jail time and shouldn't be sitting in jail for just being together. They should have been left alone, and the younger cousin shouldn't have been hit by the people in the mob.
     The Afghanistan law should change and let people who they want to marry. Even if letting their father's pick the girl/boy their child marrys has been their tradition, it's unfair to the people getting married. The boy or girl might not want to stay with this person, and they also don't know much about their soon to be husband/wife. The Afghanistan tradition needs to change for the better.

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