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Tue Apr 10, 2012, 03:02 AM

Liquorice (2,066 posts)

17. I never bought into the cultural relativism thing, no matter

how much they pushed it. I minored in Anthropology. When I hear of a 10 year old giving birth, and via c-section no less, I am of the opinion that it is horrendous. It is their culture, but that doesn't mean I have to believe that it's okay for them to impregnate 10 year olds. If in the Wayuu culture, 10 year olds regularly have sex and give birth, I believe their culture is rotten, and they're on a bad trajectory. They are treating little girls like baby makers, and not allowing them to have a childhood. I have also read that this tribe may be doing female genital mutilation.

I believe we can have an opinion and judge any culture, and certainly one that does things like accepting and encouraging sex with 10 year olds is abusive to little girls. A 10 year old girl is a little girl, no matter what culture they are in.

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39 replies	Author	Time	Post
Doctors Appalled By 10-Year-Old Giving Birth [View all]	n2doc	Apr 2012	OP
Words fail me and they rarely do.	virgogal	Apr 2012	#1
I wanna know how she got...	one_voice	Apr 2012	#2
Apparently this isn't the first such case from this tribe.	TheWraith	Apr 2012	#3
I heard from a man at the grocery store some years ago	Yo_Mama	Apr 2012	#9
The elephant in the room is who and what it takes to get any female pregnant.	nanabugg	Apr 2012	#36
that is vile	cindyperry2010	Apr 2012	#4
It's certainly not unheard of.	Mz Pip	Apr 2012	#5
Wait, she is a a member of an indigenous tribe?	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#6
True it does, so why not look at the tribe in question without a cultural bias?	Rex	Apr 2012	#14
I knw the drill	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#15
I never bought into the cultural relativism thing, no matter	Liquorice	Apr 2012	#17
Here news to you	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#19
+1	Auggie	Apr 2012	#32
My favorite story about cultural relativism:	Johnny Rico	Apr 2012	#20
Thank you. nt	redqueen	Apr 2012	#24
Excellent.	kiva	Apr 2012	#34
Very good question, I didn't think a 10	Rex	Apr 2012	#21
2-3 Standard deviations early?	One_Life_To_Give	Apr 2012	#23
Reading about that now...totally floored.	Rex	Apr 2012	#31
2000 years ago? How about 55 years ago, in the US?	Mariana	Apr 2012	#27
The tribe might think some of our customs disgusting.	HooptieWagon	Apr 2012	#7
that is true and sorry if i sounded ethnocentric	cindyperry2010	Apr 2012	#10
The world is a horribly sad and disheartening place..Horrendous tragedies occur daily, if not hourly	Rowdyboy	Apr 2012	#8
I met a doctor who performed his first abortion on a ten year old.	undeterred	Apr 2012	#11
My ex had an 11-year old get pregnant in his 6th grade class...	David__77	Apr 2012	#12
It's not. There's a reason the marriage age	Mariana	Apr 2012	#28
GOP poster child.	Downwinder	Apr 2012	#13
What is the GOP?	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#16
World's youngest mother was FIVE.....	steve2470	Apr 2012	#18
When a girl gets her period, her body is ready to carry a child.	YellowRubberDuckie	Apr 2012	#22
Do you have a link for that?	Nikia	Apr 2012	#29
No. I was speaking historically.	YellowRubberDuckie	Apr 2012	#39
I dunno, my daughter's pelvis was awfully narrow	Mariana	Apr 2012	#30
"Able" isn't the same thing as "ready".	gkhouston	Apr 2012	#37
Exactly.	redqueen	Apr 2012	#38
i don't have a medical degree and I'm completely appalled at the thought of this.	Initech	Apr 2012	#25
Workers rights are a western invention,	redqueen	Apr 2012	#26
+1 nt	TBF	Apr 2012	#35
Wayuu gotta be like that?	Typical NYC Lib	Apr 2012	#33

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