Category Archives: child marriage

Kids for Social Justice: 6 Ways Kids Can Change the World

By 21 commentsactivism, child marriage, culture, developing world, disability, eco, fairtrade, home, kids, kids and spirituality, money, parenting, School, social exclusion, social justice, spirituality

  Even if you’re little you can do a lot, you Mustn’t let a little thing like ‘little’ stop you – Matilda the Musical, ‘Naughty’, Tim Minchin Changing the world is a hard job. Best to start early, don’t you think? Here are a bunch of ways you can help your kids live a life […]

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International Women’s Day: 8 (Easy and Hard) Ways to Make Life Better for Women

By 11 commentsactivism, beauty myth, body image, boys and girls, child marriage, culture, developing world, equal opportunity, feminism, gender pay gap, gendered language, glass ceiling, kids, media, media and gender, motherhood, objectification, parental leave, peace-making, rant, sexism, social justice, women and poverty, working mothers

The wonderful Lucy is hosting an International Women’s Day link-up at Lulastic and the Hippyshake, so head over there for a great collection of posts. It’s International Women’s Day, so without further ado, here are 8 ways – some easy, some not – that you, yep, you can make the world a better place for girls […]

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Child Marriage, Child Death and What You Can Do

By 5 commentschild marriage, childbirth, culture, developing world, education, feminism, health, kids, lament, marriage, media, money, news, pregnancy, rant, sexism, sexualisation of children, social justice, social media, teenagers, video, violence against women, women and poverty

Trigger warning for discussion of rape and child marriage. The tragic, terrible death of an eight-year-old Yemeni girl made international news this week. You might have read reports that a little girl died from injuries she received during wedding-night intercourse with a 40-year-old man who had just married her. Coming from a much more fortunate […]

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