In villages, she says, people believe marrying their daughters off before they hit puberty is the only way to be sure they go to their weddings as virgins -- which is essential to the family honor.
For example, some cultures believe marrying girls before they reach puberty will bring blessings on families.
At 17, she was married for two weeks to a man from Colombia who, she now believes, married her to stay in the country.
In explaining why this is O.K., the Fed said it believed "married women who do not work outside the home" will still have access to credit because they can apply for joint accounts with their husbands, or become authorized users on their husband's accounts.
The Fed, in a somewhat outdated view of who stays home with the children these days, had said it believed "married women who do not work outside the home" would still have access to credit because they could apply for joint accounts with their husbands, or become authorized users on their husband's accounts.
Such a political structure would, he believed, marry the best of both the intellectual traditions he valued.
DEBORAH TREISMAN: Many of the writers on this list are, I believe, happily married.
When the afflicted believe they married witches, were cursed by devils or swallowed evil snakes, appeals to empirical reason can seem naïve.
I still can't believe he married me, and he was right, that was not pizza.
