- 21 Jun 2010 15:56
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This is very true. Social conditions like HIV in which child headed homes have become the norm in these countries generally display emotional maturity not generally found in children.
Your daughter had a VERY different up bringing than a girl (same age), likely poor, in Nigeria. Emotional development has less to do with age than the society/circumstances one is raised in. The maturity level of your daughter and a 13 year old girl from Afghanistan for example would be poles apart; only because one child has had a pampered life, shielded from the realities and hardships of life while the other has been exposed to them all her life.
that said, I do not condone marrying off 13 year olds.
This is very true. Social conditions like HIV in which child headed homes have become the norm in these countries generally display emotional maturity not generally found in children.