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Their goal is to:

End and prevent child marriage.

Support girls that were forced to get married

Defend their rights

Give these girls, the opportunity to have a healthy life where they can make their own decisions.

Every year 15 million girls get married before the age of 18.

http://www.girlsnotbrides.org/

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Evans writes about the “Vision Forum”, which aims to bring back the “biblical patriarchy” in order to put men at the very top. She describes and essay that a woman wrote called “Daddy’s Girl: Courtship and a Father’s Rights”, which says that she is property of her father until her father selects her husband, and then she becomes property of her husband. (pages 51-52)

“When you learn that marriage is a slow dance, not a tango, you worry less about who’s taking the lead and instead settle into the subtle changes in each other’s movements, the unforced rhythms of each other’s body to life’s music” (page 204)

Peter and Paul wrote passages that look similar to the Greco-Roman “household codes”, but they differ significantly from the ones found in pagan literature because they say that the head of the household must be fair to subordinates and that the husband must love his wife. They are introducing “an entirely new community, a community that transcends the rigid hierarchy of human institutions, a community in which submission is mutual and all are free” (pages 216-218)

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/opinion/sunday/it-was-forced-on-me-child-marriage-in-the-us.html?mcubz=0

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/08/opinion/sunday/exposures-child-bride-mother-stephanie-sinclair.html

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(Exodus 21:2-4)

2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. 3 If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

(Deuteronomy 25:5-10)

5 “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. 6 And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. 7 And if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.’ 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, ‘I do not wish to take her,’ 9 then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.’ 10 And the name of his house[a] shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.’

(Ephesians 5:22-33)

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCNpTSp2KiA

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What happens to girls when they seek help after suffering violence in their marriage?

What is the type of attitude toward love and marriage in the Bible that perpetuates the objectification of women and girls?

What happens when girls try to resist early marriage?

What is the true value in a matrimony between a man and a woman according to the Bible? Do you think that modern society has redefined the term “marriage”?