child bride

marriage was not what i expected. i was in a state of shock and too busy with school to think about it. walking to my classes in high school, i knew my friends would never understand about my arranged marriage. they never asked. i never said. i focused on learning and doing what i was told. it was easier to do physics and calculus, than understand my life. i couldn't understand how my mom who was married at 14 herself, insisted that i should be married before 18.i did what was asked of me. i had to figure out how to be in charge of my own life. first i had to finish high school. there were other young girls who got married off. the girls from the more strict families were ambushed and had early arranged marriages, while others got lucky and got to finish college first. in the end, the tribal laws are enforced by parents and children are treated as property and used for making alliances between families. girls and women live in prisons we can't see, even in developed countries like the united states.