Ten year olds shouldn't get married, raped or divorced

Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008, at 1:05 PM

I think my blog, for the most part, should be a collection of my own work. If people want to read someone else's work, they can get it at the original source. I also try to stay away from the depressing side of the news, because there's a lot out there and it's easy to let it get to you.

However, I'm a total news junkie and read a lot stories a day from several websites. Every once in a while, I'll read a story that really sticks with me.

Yesterday was one of those days. I read this story about a 10-year old girl who was married off to a man in his 30's, raped and then asked for a divorced.

Some things should just never happen, like every word in that last sentence.

There are a lot of disturbing details behind this story, but the most distributing of them is that in Yemen, where the story occurred, this isn't news. It's a fact of life.

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The idea behind Robert's Random is for me to write about whatever I'm thinking about whenever I'm thinking it. I try to write 3-5 times a week, but sometimes real work gets in the way of that. Sometimes I'll share whatever random thought I might have that day but most of the time, I like to write about things going on in the news. I'm a total news junkie, I spend a lot of time online at various news sites. If I find a story where someone does something totally stupid or I wonder "what were they thinking?" I don't mind pointing it out incase others missed it or taking my best guess at what they were thinking. I like to laugh, I like to make others laugh. There's so much serious and wrong stuff going on in the news that when I find an unusual or light story, I like to use it. And while real life news events might be the focus of many of my blogs, I'm just trying to entertain you, make you laugh and maybe even think about something you didn't know before reading. I'm not trying to break any serious news or deliver any hard-hitting coverage. You'll have to read a paper or watch one of the network shows for that.

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