Does anyone else find it funny?
Probably a little over 100 years, girls in their teens are getting married and having children. And their parents were totally fine with it. As in the book Esperanza Rising, the main character is Hispanic and the age of 15 receive a fortnight. Fortnight after they are able to marry and have kids. But now, in the year 2009 (Oh, come one. We are 8 hours of courses in 2009), a teenage pregnancy is a horrible thing. And in other societies, not only in Mexico is / was normal for a girl to marry in their teens and have a baby. Now, a girl is considered a whore if fallen pregnant. Does anyone else think the fun things changed? Sorry if I do not make sense. This is the best way I could put into words.
The world has changed since then. A live longer, girls and women are able to get more education. The world has become a more expensive place to live, then made with her daughter to school in sixth year and will probably be dead by 40 if it was to be married and pregnant at first. Today go to school at least until year 12, hopefully in college, and going to live to nearly 70.
Farai Chideya
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