From New York Times
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If a man at a refugee camp who borrowed $2,500 for medical care
for his family cannot repay his debt, his daughter will have to marry the
lender's 17-year-old son.
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Immediate response: Pay the father's
debt. Long-term solution: Birth control, sexual and moral education..... The physical,
sexual, and psychological abuse of children, girls, wives, women, and
non-married lovers has been going on in every tribe, every culture, every
country, every religion, for as long as human history. Because of improved
media and the internet, we now know about some of it.....Our response must be
immediate, unyielding, ethical, practical, effective, and long-term. This can
only be done, for more than a handful of abuse cases, at a national and global
level. Yet the moral and political corruption at that level is endemic.... "Think
Tanks" abound in the civilized world, yet nothing seems to change. Are there any realistic solutions?
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