You are a youth worker and: •a 16 year old Afghan young woman you are working with is arranged to marry a 25 year old man she has not met. She seems very unhappy about this but has chosen to proceed...

1. Marriage is a huge deal. It is considered as an institution; it is sacred and it is serious because it is a lifetime commitment that you make to another person. I am not hereby trying to imply that love marriages turn out to be fine but in case of love marriages you at least have an idea what you are getting into and who you are making a commitment with. Well, at least you have an idea. In the case provided here of a child barely adult getting married to someone who she never saw is definitely terrifying. She has no idea who she is going to spend the rest of her life with, if the person will love her, if he will be nice to her, what kind of a person he is, if she will like that person, she has got no clue about any of it. Marriage is an act of love. You can’t just forcefully put two people together and expect them to fall in love with each other. Plus, the girl is just 16. This is an age for people to get educated, see the world, gather experiences. Girl at 16 attend school and do their school work, not get married to a 25-year-old guy. Even she seems unhappy about this decision but has chosen to proceed. This implies that her family is pressurizing her to get married at the tender age of 16. Every action has a consequence and the consequences sometimes are immediate while sometimes they take place in the...