But after all - there is a Solution - Day 358

This is a continuation to my previous blogs: The American Dream of Poverty - Day 356 and The effectiveness of Brainwashing - Day 357 where, I was commenting on aspects I've seen within the documentary America's Poor Kids. Another point that I haven't yet covered is the part where a solution was presented in the documentary however, as I've mentioned in the previously, because of extensive brainwashing, it is highly unlikely that we would realize that the solution was always in front of our eyes without us being able to directly see it.

 

It is a fact that every human being in this world deserve to have a roof above their heads, food to eat, water to drink, health care, education and clothing as a basic requirement to survive in dignity in this world. It is also a fact that within the current world system, these basic human rights are not met.

 

As one can see in the documentary, one of the solutions that were applied was giving a few families a decent house to live in, a house that would be their own, without them having to pay for it and from which they could start restoring their lives. This must be applied for every human on earth isn't it? so how come we haven't seen that this must be the solution to be applied for every living being thus far? We should really question ourselves in terms of why are we waiting or for what are we waiting with applying such a simple point.

 

The resources are available the only thing that separate the solution from a practical application world wide is - the political structure of the current money system.

 

So, while from the documentary perspective, 2 out of the 3 families received a decent house to live in. that in itself is enough for us to conclude that the government is protecting its citizenships, taking care of its citizenships and that we do not have to do anything because apparently, everyone are being supported. However, it is not the case, it is only what they want us to believe because what they don't want us to question is how the system is actually work. And they know that we won't go further and investigate the poverty in the US because this documentary is enough for us to believe that poverty in the US is taken cared for. They want us to believe that housing for everyone is the solution they stand for while it is not, it is just a cover up, a propaganda to keep the us numb and silent and I must say, it is working quite well.

 

Thus, the solution - Housing for everyone on earth is a fraction of the real change that must be walked on earth but to do so, we first must change the political ties that keeps the system running, the system that had allowed  poverty from the first place to manifest

 

Investigate, question and stand up - Equal Money System solution for housing and within that, how it can be implemented once the political system is corrected and changed to a system that is based on the Value of LIFE that is best for all.

The American Dream (of Poverty) - Day 356

 

 

Today I watched the documentary - America's Poor Kids by the BBC. I was actually satisfied initially with how the documentary was done from the perspective of bringing to the American's awareness the consequences of the so call 'American Dream'. In side me, there was a moment of hope that maybe if they see poverty happening in front of their eyes and not just in third world countries, they would start questioning the system. But as the documentary progressed, I realized that it won't make any difference and especially when the characters they chose to document were those family who were lucky enough to get a house eventually.

So what is the American Dream?

The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work. In the definition of the American Dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931, "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.

The idea of the American Dream is rooted in the United States Declaration of Independence which proclaims that "all men are created equal" and that they are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights" including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

(Source: Wikipidia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream)

 

So what went wrong along the way? I mean 82 years has passed and the American Dream of Opportunities and prosperity and success that should have been Equal for everyone is no where to be found unless you are one of those lucky few who where able to either born to money or get access to money but for most part, the Dream remain on a mental state of sleeping rather something that was actually physically manifested.

 

I mean, would it be Commonsensically to assess the Equation and either do remediation on the parts of the equation that aren’t working and align the equation so that the 'Dream' could be physically manifested? In this, the part that was always missing is the part where one is waking up from the dream and start working out an equation that would bring about the physical expression of the dream isn't it?

So now, 82 years has passed and still  - we are all asleep, hoping for a better future, hoping that someone would save the day exactly as how things works out in the movies and TV series we almost hypnotically watch which is not far from our own dream - it is all taking place in some virtual reality without any physical grounds.

 

One of the kids in the 'American's poor kids' repeatedly said that no child should go through what she has gone through and I agree, no child should, no man and woman should, no animal should and yet, it is happening on a day to day basis all over the world and the Poverty epidemic is worsening.

 

So will we wake up and start questioning why and how the dream didn't come through? A good place to start is the Equal Money System website where the equation is slowly but surely busy forming, an equation that is based on a value that is honourable - the value of Life that is best for all on a physical level.

The Dark Side of Capitalism - Poverty (Part 4) - Day 307

This is a continuation to my Previous blogs:

The Dark Side of Capitalism - Poverty (Part 1) - Day 304

The Dark Side of Capitalism - Poverty (Part 2) - Day 305

The Dark Side of Capitalism - Poverty (Part 3) - Day 306

 

Where I mentioned that we are going to:

have a look at the Principles the Current Capitalistic System is based on and how the Current Capitalistic System that Promote abuse in this world had been advertised and "sold" for us to accept and allow the system without ever questioning its validity.

For this, we will look at the Questions and Answers published on the website - Capitalism.org to show the Problems that currently exist and accordingly, present solutions to correct the Manifested consequences and the Rewards of implementing the Equal Money Capitalism System.

 

Within this blog, we are going to look at the following Question and Answer:

 

The Problem

 

"What of those who cannot truly help themselves?

The few individuals in a capitalist society who are incapable of taking care of themselves — such as the retarded, crippled, and orphans (which are a small and tiny minority in any free country) — are provided for through voluntary means, i.e., private charity."

 

See, here is another example of the Status Queue we have accepted and allowed within and as this world. If we look at the design of Orphans and why Orphans exists is in most cases a direct connection and relationship with the inability to afford the life of the child and therefor, the parents that have no substantial support in this world, would rather give up their child within the hope they would receive a better opportunity in their life than keeping the child, knowing the life the child would have.

So what have we done within the Capitalistic System? Instead of making sure that we all take Equal Responsibility for each and every child in this world and thus, decide upon a system that would support a life of each human being from birth till death, we shifted the responsibility towards Volunteers and Private Charity and Excused ourselves from our Responsibility towards and of Life.

 

In my Previous blog Series with regards to Charity, I've shown in detail why and how Charity is in no way the solution and yet, it is promoted and advertised as a 'Good' thing without realizing it is THE thing that perpetuate the world's problem because it provide a back door for us to not take responsibility and change the world system to a system that consider, respect, protect and honour all Life Equally.

 

So instead of Questioning why the Design of Orphans exists in this world and within that, why we have accepted and allowed it to manifest to begin with, we cover up the problem with Charities and Donations without looking for a solution that would Eradicate the existent of Orphan children where each child will grow up in a cared and caressed environment with a parent to look up for the child. It is Doable - in an Equal Money System.

 

Now, with regards to the Question and Answer above - is another example of how such an important question is NOT being answered in absolute detail and specificity. For starter, there are MANY human beings that truly cannot help themselves in this world and that include not only the 7 Billion people that lives under 2$ per day but also the Elderly Human Being in this world that are dependent on social security or on their families if they are lucky, to take care of them. Most of them, if they do not have the funds to be able to live in a private elderly institutions, finds themselves in their death beds in the most crucial and outrageous condition no human being should experience. That again, can only exists within a system that is based on Inequality, Inhumanity and Disrespect for Life such as the Current Capitalistic System as it exists now.

 

Obviously, this topic is not to be disregarded and dismissed but rather, take into absolute consideration and accordingly, we must walk towards unconditionally solution that would prevent one from not being able to help themselves due to the unacceptable world system we exists within and as.

 

The Solution

 

First and foremost - we must do our research to understand the extent of the Problem presented in the Question:

"What of those who cannot truly help themselves?" and in this, to understand the core/root/cause of the problem so that from there, we could come up with a practical solutions for each and every individual case.

 

In General, within an Equal Money System, where each human being is taken cared for, from birth till Death, the problem as it is exists today would decrease dramatically. However, that is not the absolute solution since the problem is multidimensional problem that individual solutions must be established in making sure we Prevent the problem from reoccurring again.

When the time comes, I will walk in detail each and every aspect mentioned in this blog to reveal the Current problems and the specific Solution that can practically be applied within an Equal Money System.

 

The Reward

 

Place yourself in the shoes of the parents that have to give up their child because they  cannot give the child the life every child should have. Now, Place yourself in the Shoes a 6 months pregnant mother that knows she must give up her child and imagine her Experience. However now, tell this Mother that the World System had changed and she is now supported, as well as her child for the rest of her life - Imagine her Experience when realizing she is no longer living a life of Survival and can actually Live a life that is worthwhile. Can you see the Reward now?

 

 

 

 

 

The Dark Side of Capitalism - Poverty (Part 1) - Day 304

 

This is a continuation to my Previous blog where I shared how those in the favour of the Current Capitalistic System, rationalize and thus justify the abuse and harm that exists in this world.

The Equal Money Capitalism System is a system that would restore the REAL values that originally the Capitalistic System was supposed to be and accordingly, a few alignment and adjustments must be taken place in order to Correct the system to a system that is based on the Principle that the Value of Life is the Most Respected and Honoured value that exist and it is thus, the Stepping stone from which each and every single decision that would be made within an Equal Life Money System.

 

Let's have a look at the Principles the Current Capitalistic System is based on and how the Current Capitalistic System that Promote abuse in this world had been advertised and "sold" for us to accept and allow the system without ever questioning its validity.

For this, we will look at the Questions and Answers published on the website - Capitalism.org to show the Problems that currently exists and accordingly, present solutions to correct the Manifested consequences and the Rewards of implementing the Equal Money Capitalism System.

 

The Problem:

What about the poor under capitalism?

The other side of that question is: what about those who are not poor?

What of them? Let us not forget that the “rich” are people too, and they also have the right to their life, their right to liberty, and their right to their property, and their right to pursue happiness.

 

If one have a look at the Question and Answer, the question wasn't answered but has been diverted to make one Feel Good because after all, it is highly unlikely that the 'Poor' would read through this pages and would oppose to the manipulation tactics that has been used.

 

Within the answer, what one is basically stating is that, the Rich are People too and have the right for Life however, in between the words, what is implied is that the Poor can die for the Life of the rich because after all, that is the current situation under the Capitalism system or in other words: the poor may die for the Right of the Rich to Live.

 

While the Rich has the 'right to their life, their right to liberty, and their right to their property, and their right to pursue happiness', the poor does not because all of the above rights can be provided ONLY with Money. Wouldn't that imply that the Value of Life within the Current Capitalistic System is Equal to the Value of Money?

 

The Problem here is the use and abuse of Positive Psychology to make One Rationalized their Right to Life above another and in doing so, to disregard the Equal Right of all Living Being to have a life that is actually worthwhile, dignified where Happiness for Real can be Pursue as long as the Happiness is not on the expanse of the Harm of another.

Within the above answer (oh, I'm sorry - justification), there is nothing really rational about it and it is the most irrational statement where one Life is Valued more than another to justify the continuation of abused that is accepted and allowed in this world to the extent of which no one will dare to question and stand up to correct the problem.

 

This Answer is a perfect example of how the human consciousness has been diverted into one's own self interest bubble and I must add, it isn't even very sophisticated way I mean - this type of diversions are really easy to be spot on however, our mind is so infused into the Principle of self interest and survival that no one could actually see the ridiculous of stating such an answer to a simple question: "What about the poor under capitalism?"

 

I can tell you what would be the answer within and Equal Money Capitalism: the 'Poor' under the Equal money Capitalism would be existent only within the History books, to show the extent of the irrationality of our past generations that led to a massive abuse and harm in this world. It would be mentioned in the history books as a reminder for ourselves to never again accept and allow anything that is less than Life itself. There would be no Poor within the Equal Money Capitalism as the Value of Life is the most honoured value that exists and if a single Poor person exists because the system forced the poor to be poor, there is something unacceptable within the system that require quantum correction and prevention to take place.

 

The Solutions:

To Eradicate Poverty, one must realize that there are multidimensional Points we must consider and at this point, we do not have the exact Mathematical Equation to manifest the solution from today to tomorrow.

The General guidelines are in place and the content of the 'How-To' needs to be written after extensive research, measurement, assessments and considerations.

Overall, to eradicate Poverty what needs to be done is the following:

1. Create the foundations for each and every human being in this world to sustain a fulfilling Life. That means that one will have free access to the Earth Resources through effective distribution and revision system.

In this, Jobs will be created, Support will be provided, resources will distributed and all would be able to live from Birth till Death without worrying about the next day.

2. Education - Education is the KEY to slowly but surely acquire the necessary life skills that are required to exists within this interconnectedness reality that consists of and exists as the sum total of the relationships that created this Life from the get go. In other words - We must empower, grow and expand ourselves to be and become effective human beings in this world that would contribute according to one's ability and capability to the better living of us all. For more information with regards to the difference between the Education system within the current Capitalistic System and Education within the Equal Money System, please visit the EMS Wiki page - http://equalmoney.org/wiki/Education

 

The Rewards:

Imagine a life where the Fear of Survival will only be existent in the History books.. Imagine a life where one is no longer require to fight day and night to bring food on the table.. Imagine a life where you can actually be with your children and watch them grow, instead of having to be at work for 15 hours a day while others take care of your kids in the best case scenario.. Imagine a Life where you no longer afraid that someone would steal something you own because everyone will have what you have.. Imagine a life that can be actually Lived!

With the Equal Money System, you can stop imagining but instead, live the life you always dreamt of.

I mean seriously now - once you go through the Equal Money System proposal, you wouldn't believe how is it possible that we didn't think about this solution sooner. So do your research and let's work together to manifest a system that would benefit us all.

Health Disasters and Child Marriage will END in an Equal Money System - Day 290

 

 

 

If you haven't already, I suggest to read the Previous blogs to have encompassing understanding with regards to Child Marriage in terms of the severe Problems and the Practical Solutions that would implemented within an Equal Money Capitalism System:

 

 

 

 

 

Abusive child marriages will END in an Equal Money System - Day 284

Child Marriage will END in an Equal Money System (Overview) - Day 285

Poverty and Child Marriage will END in an Equal Money Capitalism - Day 286

Education Will END Child Marriage in an Equal Money Capitalism - Day 289

 

The Problems:

• Girls younger than 15 are five times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their 20s. Pregnancy is the leading cause of death worldwide for women ages 15 to 19. Girls age 15-19 are more likely (66.6%) to experience delivery complications compared to 30-34 year-old women (59.7%)2 and neonatal, infant and child mortality rates are much higher for younger girls.
• Girls' physiological vulnerability due to the small size, inelasticity, and lack of lubrication of the vagina and cervix is compounded by their exposure to frequent, unprotected, and sometimes forced sexual intercourse within marriage;
• Premature childbirth can lead to a variety of health problems for mothers, including fistula, a debilitating condition that causes chronic incontinence.
• Obstetric fistula results when a young mother’s vagina, bladder and/or rectum tear during childbirth, a condition that causes urine and feces leakage. It can occur when a young woman with underdeveloped physiology gives birth. Fistula patients are commonly poor women, ages 15 to 20, many of whom report early marriage. (United Nations Population Fund (2003). Obstetric Fistula Needs Assessment Report: Findings From Nine African Countries. UNFPA: New York.)
• Girls with fistula are often abandoned by their husbands and ostracized by society. There are approximately 2 million girls living with fistula, and 100,000 new cases every year. http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/341/facts.html
• Prolonged and obstructed labor, which is common among pregnant young adolescents, can lead to hemorrhage, severe infection, and maternal death. This is especially true for girls who experience additional pregnancy-related complications such as eclampsia. http://www.iwhc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3487&Itemid=629
• Child brides face a higher risk of contracting HIV because they often marry an older man with more sexual experience. For example, in Kisumu, Kenya, HIV infection rates are nearly 33 percent among married girls

ages 15 - 19, compared with 22 percent among unmarried, sexually-active girls of the same age.

• Young girls are more physically susceptible to STD's, have less access to reproductive education and health services but also because, young girls' negotiation skills and experience to ensure a healthy sexual life are less developed.

Child Marriage Fact Sheet - Unicef

Child Marriage Factsheets

 

 



 

 

The Solution:

 

In a Normal Society, a Society that appreciate Life and the Value of Life along with the understanding that the Human Physical body is that which allow us to have a Life - a common sense approach would be to have children only when the Human Physical Body is fully prepared for Pregnancy and Labor.

As I've mentioned in the previous blog, one of the main goal within Equal Money Capitalism System, is a free access to Education and thus, to becoming Self Aware of your human physical body.

 

Understand that within the current Cultural Design of Child Marriages, Awareness and understanding of the Pregnancy and Labor Consequences, is lacking however, once the people become educated and aware of their body physiology and the Physiology of their Children's body, the cultural design would change as no parent would wish to put their child under such risks because remember, Poverty will no longer be the force of child marriage in an Equal Money System.

 

Obviously, the HIV risks will reduce almost to nothing among young girls as they would no longer be forced into marriage and sex before they had educated themselves and are ready to walk a

partnership that is supportive and empowering.

Thus, the solution is once again - A process of Education and Self Awareness which all human beings will now have access to, within an Equal Money Capitalism System.

 

Obviously, Health care would be available for all and would function within the Principle of Prevention. As you can see in the documentary Why Poverty - Welcome to the World, health care at the moment is unreachable in the poor areas of the world which perpetuate the problem for so many children however, it can be done, and it must be done because it wouldn't be human not to.

 

Healthcare in Equal Money System

Equal Money Healthcare will track the Food Regimen, the Treatment Regimen, and the Diagnostic Regimen of Each Human to Enhance the Outcome of Optimum Living. This will Result in Real Science, producing a Healthy World focusing on Prevention as the Best Cure.

 

For more information, please research the Health Care Wiki Equal Money Page

 

The Reward:

Healthy, Educated and Aware society would ensure a Better life for so many. The Children and their parents would have a true Free choice where all the information would be presented to them and they would have the skills to comprehend the information and therefor, make informative decisions that are best for themselves and their children.

 

Fatal diseases and conditions would tremendously be reduced once the Education Processes would be Effective and Supportive in terms of becoming aware of the risks, the probabilities, and the consequences to the human physical body. Health care would no longer be scarcity and would be a basic right for all living beings which would result with Healthy society

 

Well-Being Goal:

The Equal Money System will Study the Psychological Well-Being of Humans to Ensure a Lifestyle free of Fear. The focus will be on Supporting Life to Practically Live Fulfillment and Happiness in Ways where Self-Gratification will not Harm any Living Being or the Environment. This is to Ensure the continuation of Earth as an Effective Resource for the Enjoyment of Future Generations.

 

 Videos that I suggest watching:

Too Young to Wed: Destaye

Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides

The Bride Price: Consequences of Child Marriage Worldwide

Bangladesh Child Marriage (A documentary by BBC's Angus Crawford)

Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Hilary Clinton join forces to end child marriage

 

 

Articles to read:

Child Marriage Factsheets

Child Marriage Fact Sheet - Unicef

National Geographic - Child Brides

The terrifying world of child brides: Devastating images show girls young enough to be in pre-school who are married off to older men  

Health Consequences of Child Marriage in Africa

Solutions to Ending Child Marriage in Southern Asia

 

Suggested Websites:

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
To Young to Wed

Education Will END Child Marriage in an Equal Money Capitalism - Day 289

If you haven't already, I suggest to read the Previous blogs to have encompassing understanding with regards to Child Marriage in terms of the severe Problems and the Practical Solutions that would implemented within an Equal Money Capitalism System:

Abusive child marriages will END in an Equal Money System - Day 284

Child Marriage will END in an Equal Money System (Overview) - Day 285

Poverty and Child Marriage will END in an Equal Money Capitalism - Day 286

 

The Problem:

 

Education and Child Marriage (Facts and Figures)

• Girls with higher levels of schooling are less likely to marry as children. In Mozambique, some 60 percent of girls with no education are married by 18, compared to 10 percent of girls with secondary schooling and less than one percent of girls with higher education.

• Educating adolescent girls has been a critical factor in increasing the age of marriage in a number of developing countries, including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand.

 

On top of that, one of the reasons for child marriage is the little likelihood of a high level educated girls to marry as a grown-ups because then, the girls are not as submissive as they tend to be when they didn't go through the Educational School years. The Boys' family prefer submissive girls than a strong characteristic girls for multiple reasons while the main reason is the preference of having a cheap labour force. In other words, uneducated girl is more likely to be trained to become a slave without having the basic life skills to stand up for herself. She is more likely to be manipulated and mould into the husband family wants, needs and desires, when and as the girl isn't educated. And so, some families feels pressure to marry the daughter as young as possible, even if that means that the child won't be able to continue her education, to increase the financial pressure on the Girl's family and to avoid 'future consequences' of having to provide for the child in her adult years if it happens that she won't get married.

 

 

The Solution:

 

Educating adolescent girls has been a critical factor in increasing the age of marriage in a number of developing countries, including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand. (Mathur, S., M.Greene and A. Malhotra (2003).

 

 

Education within an Equal Money Capitalism is one of the important gaols if not the most important one, within the understanding that to be able to become an effective human being in this world and therefor, contribute to the better living of All, Education is required from a very young age.

Accordingly, when every human on earth is supported from birth to death, Education would be accessible for all without causing a pressure on the Family. Obviously, that includes all human beings, no matter what their age is and therefor, cultural habits would change with the introduction of the parents to Awareness of the Consequences and the Possibilities that are available to prevent such consequences.

 

Education, shouldn't be the responsibility of the family to provide but the responsibility of us all, in making sure that every child of this world will receive the best education possible no matter where the child is from or what beliefs the child grow up with. Education would be Free and no longer increase the financial pressure on a families because such pressure would cease to exists within the Equal Money System.

 

One of the Equal Money System Goals is Education:

"Education in an Equal Money System will prepare Each Human to become a Self-Aware, Responsible Part of the Human Race that lives a fulfilled and Extra Ordinary Life of Excellence, Happiness and fun. Equal Money will Ensure that every Citizen is Effectively Educated to Live in Harmony with Plants, Animals and the Environment in General."

 

For more information regarding Education in an Equal Money System, Please visit the Equal Money Wiki page:

The Role of Education in an Equal Money System

 

The Reward:

Imagine a Human Society where no one is left behind, when all are fully educated and aware of their accountability and responsibility for themselves and this world as a whole.

Imagine what improvements in science, technology and etc. we can come up with when Billion of people have now an opportunity to discover their capacity, their capability and their intelligent in finding solutions that can assist and support to perfect our lives.

I mean, in a perfect world, where there is no longer a need to compete for one's survival as all are taken care for, education can be truly an education process of assisting and supporting the beings to be more than who they currently are, due to the limitation that existent within the current education in the world, and to within that, develop reasoning and mathematical thinking, reading and writing skills that would result with higher level of effective human beings in this world, rather than automated robots that are being subjected to limit of education the Elite places upon the Educational programs. This is another problem that I would expand upon eventually but for the time being, I suggest to watch: The College Conspiracy and reading the article that was published just yesterday: Schools don't teach life skills warns Charles: Prince says education system leaves youngsters unable to develop into successful adults

 

Videos that I suggest watching:

Too Young to Wed: Destaye

Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides

The Bride Price: Consequences of Child Marriage Worldwide

Bangladesh Child Marriage (A documentary by BBC's Angus Crawford)

Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Hilary Clinton join forces to end child marriage

 

 

Articles to read:

Child Marriage Factsheets

National Geographic - Child Brides

The terrifying world of child brides: Devastating images show girls young enough to be in pre-school who are married off to older men  

Health Consequences of Child Marriage in Africa

Solutions to Ending Child Marriage in Southern Asia

Naghma, the Afghan girl sold to be a child bride

 

 

Suggested Websites:

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
To Young to Wed

 

 

 

Poverty and Child Marriage will END in an Equal Money Capitalism - Day 286

This is a continuation to:

Abusive child marriages will END in an Equal Money System - Day 284

Child Marriage will END in an Equal Money System (Part 1) - Day 285

 

 

Within the Previous blog, I presented General Problems with Child Marriages.

Today, we will go a bit more into the Details of the Problems and Present Solutions for the Problems with Child Marriages.

 

 

 

 

 

The Problem:

 

Poverty and Child Marriage:

 

As I mentioned in the previous blog, within the Poverty and Child Marriage Relationship:

 

• Girls living in poor households are almost twice as likely to marry before 18 than girls in higher income households.
• More than half of the girls in Bangladesh, Mali, Mozambique and Niger are married before age 18. In these same countries, more than 75 percent of people live on less than $2 a day.

 

According to The National Research Council and Institute of Medicine (2005) Growing Up Global: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries. Panel on Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries. Cynthia B. Lloyd, Ed. Committee on Population and Board on Children, Youth, and Families. Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press, p. 432 :

"The household economic status is a key factor in determining the timing of marriage for girls (along with education and urban-rural residence, with rural girls more likely to marry young). In fact, girls living in poor households are approximately twice as likely to marry before 18 than girls living in better-off households."

 

(From: TOO YOUNG TO WED : Education & Action Toward Ending Child Marriage)

 

Another reason for a child marriage within the Poverty and Child Marriage Relationships is "Economic Gain". Meaning, the marriage of a daughter may also motivate poor families as a mean to settle debts.

 

Interestingly enough, the "Solution" for Poverty in the Context on Child Marriage was to Marry the Girl and in that, reducing the Financial pressure from the Girl's family. What was not understood within the Child Marriages and Poverty relationship is that this only perpetuating Poverty. Once the Girls are being taken a way from Education, their opportunities for a successful and meaningful life is diminished on their Wedding day. Instead of nurturing the Future of the Child within giving her effective Life Skills through Education, the child is doomed to a life of no real chance within the world system and all she could do is have children and work in the fields while carrying their child on their back for instance. These girls cannot stand on their own 2 feet within this current world system because without higher level of education, there is no substantial and real chance for a better life and thus - these girls would not be able to get out of the Poverty Cycle.

 

 

 

The Solution:

 

In an Equal Money Capitalism System, Poverty will Cease to Exists as the Value of Human Beings, no matter their culture, religion and countries would return to its NORMAL value which is the Value of Life. That means that for the first time in History, Humans would STOP striving for their Survival and Life that is worthwhile could be finally lived.

 

Thus, once all human beings are being taken care for by the world system through collective contribution within the understanding that all for and as one and one for and as all must work together within one's self honest capacity, and along with an effective world wide distribution system that would make sure that all the basic Life needs and more will be shared with every living creature on this earth, poverty would not be part of the Equation.

 

Once Equal Money Capitalism System is Established and Poverty is no more, the starting point of marrying a child to support or reduce the financial pressure from the family will no longer be valid and acceptable in the families' eyes.

 

I'm Certain that once poverty isn't part of the Decision making regarding the possibility of marry a child under the age of 18 against the child will and the Awareness of the Consequences this act may lead to, there would be no Family that would force a child marriage no matter what Culture and Religion the family is coming from.

 

 

The Reward:

Children can remain Children and discover themselves within a slow but sure process of effective Education in Learning practical and applicable Life Skills. Marriage would be an outflow of an agreement between the partners instead of children and adults for that matter, being forced to a partnership that they didn't decided for themselves and with their partner. Partnership must be about Principles that the partners are willing to stand for and as, together, principles that would assist and support the both of them to grow, expand and empower themselves and each other within a supportive and effective partnership.

 

With having Partnerships that based on mutual grounding and understanding within an agreement, our Human Society would flourish. People would start respecting each other and as we would see in the next blogs to come, Equal Money Capitalism System would also reduce significantly all sort of domestic Violence.

 

Children must not be an Economic resort for a family but an expression of who they are. Children all over the world would be Happy, Free to Express and Discover themselves, Free to Learn and Educate themselves - Children could be Children instead of young Adults.

 

In an Equal Money System, we won't have to worry about the well being of our children as we can be certain that no matter what, the children are protected, safe and taken cared for.

 

Suggested links to Investigate:

 

Videos that I suggest watching:

Too Young to Wed: Destaye

Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides

The Bride Price: Consequences of Child Marriage Worldwide

Bangladesh Child Marriage (A documentary by BBC's Angus Crawford)

Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Hilary Clinton join forces to end child marriage

 

 

Articles to read:

Child Marriage Factsheets

National Geographic - Child Brides

The terrifying world of child brides: Devastating images show girls young enough to be in pre-school who are married off to older men  

Health Consequences of Child Marriage in Africa

Solutions to Ending Child Marriage in Southern Asia

 

Suggested Websites:

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
To Young to Wed