The perspective of women varies greatly cross-culturally. Some questions that do not have the same respond from a culture to another culture include: What age are they are considered adults, what age should they be married, and what age are they prepared for child bearing. These questions are fundamentally rooted in the culture, religion and political frameworks of each society. Watching the series of shorts films, some of the questions were answered. Contemporary cases of religious persecutions in more than 50 developing countries are a direct result of child marriages. In the first video,The Heartbreaking Truth About Yemen 's Child Brides (Journeyman Pictures), Abdulmalik Al-Taj, a professor of Islamic law, refers very strictly to the problem of sovereignty. He states that they should be able to rule themselves, under Islamic law, which makes it okay for children to be married.
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He targets organizations like the United Nations and local NGO’s to be working with a “western agenda," failing to acknowledge the culturally and religiously rooted traditions of that practice. However, local organization argue that they are not representing westerners, they are represent humans and fighting for they inalienable human rights. Anderson (2011) states “that in all religions, religious texts are interpreted. More fundamentalist tend to subordinate women, while different reading can support greater freedom for women.” This point of view is exemplified by the way muslims interpret the koran and islamic theology. The strict interpretation of Islam is challenged by Shawaki al-Khadi, parliamentarian for Islah, in his book The safe age for marriage. All these points of view are delivered at the same solely to prove that although Islam extremist interpret the religion as praising such actions, there needs to be wariness to the wide spread trouble of child brides. If there were no proven factors like removal form early primary education, early child bearing and even death, this would not be an issue to be resolved. The producer of the film carried out each opinion respectfully and thoroughly to provoke actions against child marriages. As another video points out, children would rather kill themselves than be married at a young age. Nada Al-Ahdal featured is the video is an 11 year-old from Yemen, that ran away from home after her parents were forcing her to get married. She had 3 choices, to be forced into marriage, flee the village or death. Her choice ultimately lead to death. Her voice and passion in this video touches the hearts of the viewers. She demands people to think about the innocence of childhood and the dreams they kill when force for children to marry so young. Contrary to what many believe, child marriages are not exclusive to a religion or culture. As stated in the video Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides and as proven in the video Child Marriage child marriages are occurring in all over the world. The perpetual cycle is implemented to tackle the problem of poverty, but as explained in both these videos, child marriages only further the problem of poverty. According to the short film Child Marriage (SafeHandsforMothers) governments in societies where these problem arise do have strategies. For example, in Ethiopia Melkie Asres Wenday, a prosecutor, states that there
He targets organizations like the United Nations and local NGO’s to be working with a “western agenda," failing to acknowledge the culturally and religiously rooted traditions of that practice. However, local organization argue that they are not representing westerners, they are represent humans and fighting for they inalienable human rights. Anderson (2011) states “that in all religions, religious texts are interpreted. More fundamentalist tend to subordinate women, while different reading can support greater freedom for women.” This point of view is exemplified by the way muslims interpret the koran and islamic theology. The strict interpretation of Islam is challenged by Shawaki al-Khadi, parliamentarian for Islah, in his book The safe age for marriage. All these points of view are delivered at the same solely to prove that although Islam extremist interpret the religion as praising such actions, there needs to be wariness to the wide spread trouble of child brides. If there were no proven factors like removal form early primary education, early child bearing and even death, this would not be an issue to be resolved. The producer of the film carried out each opinion respectfully and thoroughly to provoke actions against child marriages. As another video points out, children would rather kill themselves than be married at a young age. Nada Al-Ahdal featured is the video is an 11 year-old from Yemen, that ran away from home after her parents were forcing her to get married. She had 3 choices, to be forced into marriage, flee the village or death. Her choice ultimately lead to death. Her voice and passion in this video touches the hearts of the viewers. She demands people to think about the innocence of childhood and the dreams they kill when force for children to marry so young. Contrary to what many believe, child marriages are not exclusive to a religion or culture. As stated in the video Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides and as proven in the video Child Marriage child marriages are occurring in all over the world. The perpetual cycle is implemented to tackle the problem of poverty, but as explained in both these videos, child marriages only further the problem of poverty. According to the short film Child Marriage (SafeHandsforMothers) governments in societies where these problem arise do have strategies. For example, in Ethiopia Melkie Asres Wenday, a prosecutor, states that there