Colombia Declared Child Marriage Unconstitutional in February 2025

Good, but old news (2/6/2025)!

You would think/believe that at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century this barbaric tradition was long abolished! Well, not quite!

However according to Google AI Mode Search: 

1. "According to the Pew Research Center and the World Economic Forum, at least 117 countries around the world still allow child marriage." That is truly shocking!
2. "As of 2024, there are approximately 650 million child brides around the world who were married before the age of 18. Out of this number, approximately 207 million were married before the age of 15.
   It is estimated that every year, at least 12 million girls are married before they reach the age of 18. This equates to roughly 28 girls married every minute."

"Colombia has declared child marriage unconstitutional. Colombia’s Constitutional Court today took a step further in banning child marriage, by declaring Articles 117 and 124 of the Civil Code unconstitutional. These articles had allowed children over the age of 14 to marry with the consent of their legal representatives. From now on, all marriages must involve individuals who are at least 18 years old. ...

Colombia ranks 20th globally in the number of girls who are married or in unions before the age of 15, according to the latest UNICEF report. ..."

Colombia Declares Child Marriage Unconstitutional - Human Progress

Colombia Declares Child Marriage Unconstitutional

War On

Watch Your Tongue

It is a sad sign of our modern times that a violent phrase of war on x has been coined so often in our public political discourse. Is this part of a strategy to desensitize humanity? War on Drugs. Culture Wars. War on Poverty. War on Women. War on Religious Liberty and so on.

Language Of Barbarism

To use such a barbaric word like war so loosely in our language is not a sign of civilization. What is e.g. a war on poverty or a war on drugs? Is it not a war affecting some of our children and neighbors?