<story><title>US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe</title><url>http://nypost.com/2014/05/24/son-finds-his-lost-mother-in-a-stone-age-tribe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phaus</author><text>&amp;gt;Old men marrying children is common in many parts of the world.&lt;p&gt;There are quite a few shitty people in the world. As much as many of us hate to admit it, there are also quite a few shitty cultures. Any 36 year-old man, from any culture that has ever existed, that finds it acceptable to marry a 9-12 year old and then start raping her when she&amp;#x27;s 13 is a piece of shit. Any culture or individual that condones such behavior shouldn&amp;#x27;t exist anymore.</text></item><item><author>DanBC</author><text>Old men marrying children is common in many parts of the world.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.unicef.org/protection/57929_58008.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.unicef.org&amp;#x2F;protection&amp;#x2F;57929_58008.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tooyoungtowed.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tooyoungtowed.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>mherkender</author><text>Wow, his father sounds like a piece of work.&lt;p&gt;He decides that culture is the only real reason he shouldn&amp;#x27;t marry someone who was &amp;quot;about 9 to 12&amp;quot; when he&amp;#x27;s 36. Then his long absences put her at risk of being brutally gang-raped, which happens. She ends up in the US, and eventually goes back without her kids. He tells his kids nothing about her, why she left, who she is, but still has his son beg her to come back in front of a video camera. His son thinks she abandoned him and becomes an alcoholic by 14. The guy says “We weren’t a touchy-feely, talk-about-things kind of family&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fallinghawks</author><text>&amp;gt;  Any 36 year-old man ... that finds it acceptable to marry a 9-12 year old and then start raping her when she&amp;#x27;s 13 is a piece of shit&lt;p&gt;I would assume she fully expected to have sex with her husband, 13 years old or not. To suggest this was rape, against her will, is a bit preposterous and an incorrect usage of the word. At the same time I find it reprehensible that a 36 year old American, whose culture says underage is below 18, would get involved with what we&amp;#x27;d consider a child.</text></comment>
<story><title>US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe</title><url>http://nypost.com/2014/05/24/son-finds-his-lost-mother-in-a-stone-age-tribe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phaus</author><text>&amp;gt;Old men marrying children is common in many parts of the world.&lt;p&gt;There are quite a few shitty people in the world. As much as many of us hate to admit it, there are also quite a few shitty cultures. Any 36 year-old man, from any culture that has ever existed, that finds it acceptable to marry a 9-12 year old and then start raping her when she&amp;#x27;s 13 is a piece of shit. Any culture or individual that condones such behavior shouldn&amp;#x27;t exist anymore.</text></item><item><author>DanBC</author><text>Old men marrying children is common in many parts of the world.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.unicef.org/protection/57929_58008.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.unicef.org&amp;#x2F;protection&amp;#x2F;57929_58008.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tooyoungtowed.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tooyoungtowed.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>mherkender</author><text>Wow, his father sounds like a piece of work.&lt;p&gt;He decides that culture is the only real reason he shouldn&amp;#x27;t marry someone who was &amp;quot;about 9 to 12&amp;quot; when he&amp;#x27;s 36. Then his long absences put her at risk of being brutally gang-raped, which happens. She ends up in the US, and eventually goes back without her kids. He tells his kids nothing about her, why she left, who she is, but still has his son beg her to come back in front of a video camera. His son thinks she abandoned him and becomes an alcoholic by 14. The guy says “We weren’t a touchy-feely, talk-about-things kind of family&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jackmaney</author><text>I couldn&amp;#x27;t have said it any better, myself. Not all cultures are good. Quite a few of them are, in fact, terrible, and should no longer exist.</text></comment>