{"id":89552,"date":"2026-05-23T19:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89552"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:10:31","slug":"here-is-your-bride-please-dont-beat-her-as-taliban-recognises-child-marriage-afghans-marry-off-girls-and-babies-and-can-only-hope-they-are-not-raped-before-they-even-hit-puberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/23\/here-is-your-bride-please-dont-beat-her-as-taliban-recognises-child-marriage-afghans-marry-off-girls-and-babies-and-can-only-hope-they-are-not-raped-before-they-even-hit-puberty\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Here is your bride&#8230; please don&#8217;t beat her&#8217;: As Taliban recognises child marriage, Afghans &#8216;marry off&#8217; girls and BABIES &#8211; and can only hope they are not raped before they even hit puberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/05\/22\/15\/108805493-0-image-a-48_1779460780989.jpg\" alt=\"'Here is your bride... please don't beat her': As Taliban recognises child marriage,\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Parwana Malik was just nine years old when her father sold her as a bride to a man in his 50s, desperate to find enough money to feed his family. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-15834585\/Here-bride-dont-beat-Taliban-recognises-child-marriage-Afghans-marry-girls-BABIES-hope-not-raped-hit-puberty.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Parwana Malik was just nine years old when her father sold her as a bride to a man in his 50s, desperate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/afghan-girls-for-sale.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89554,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89552\/revisions\/89554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}