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I’m honest. Been ma uu sheegaa?
Plus grandparents can always help you raise your children. Waa wax fiican. They keep the culture, language, dhaqan iyo deen, and they smarten up.
I’m glad early marriage has worked out for you. Unfortunately, as I’ve said in my previous post you seem to in the minority. The majority of Somali girls I know who married prior to 25 are no longer married.
It was a poor life choice for them and has led to entrenched poverty. I know you did not grown up in TCH but these girls are now unfortunately raising the second-generation of their families in subsidized housing.
Somalis in Canada overwhelmingly constitute the working poor. If we were on par with the Pakistani Canadian community in terms of social status and educational attainment. And had the same ristha process. I would not be opposed to girls marrying that young.
As it is, these girls marry uneducated men (the Somali-Canadian community has the second highest drop out rate in the TDSB) with poor employment prospects. Struggle begets struggle.
Just because you know it hasn’t worked out for them doesn’t mean early marriage is something Somali girls should run away from. They probably did not take marriage seriously. You will never know the true reasons. Teeda kale, they can get married again.
Divorce is not a death sentence, being a single mother is not a death sentence. Looking down on such women is a poor cultural practice that is contrary to the deen. I’ve said before that during the time of the nabi saw a lot of Muslim men died in battle leaving many women single mothers. Guess what? They were remarried. Divorced women married again. Waa qadr. You learn from it and you do better inshallah in your next marriage. It keeps a family intact with a father present in the household.
I think the rat race career life that some Somali girls have bought into is laughable to me. Look at all the sexual harassment cases coming out? You work in a toxic environment toiling away day in and out, away from your children, your husband, your home only to be surrounded by disgusting predatory men who your husband cannot protect you from. Every younger Somali girl I come across, I encourage them to work around women or start their own business. They will pass down wealth, set their own hours and be their own boss, and don’t have to worry about working in a toxic setting filled with greasy nasty men!
I don’t think it’s good advice you’re giving honestly. One extreme to the next is not good. Just because things happen, doesn’t mean it should sway you from marriage. There’s a reason it’s half of faith.