young girls
This article is quite disturbing. I read it and it troubled me. It is talking about female circumcision that occurs when girls reach puberty. It is a tradition that has gone on for hundreds of years.
Read at your digression.
This is another article regarding the subject: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5298858
~Ruth
Read at your digression.
This is another article regarding the subject: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5298858
~Ruth
posted by researchforchange at 8:06 AM
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"The Maasai are a close-knit community who live largely by their own rules, and have resisted modernisation. It is this adherence to their own traditions that makes the eradication of FGM among the Maasai such an uphill task for those seeking to end the practice."
I think that sums up the article and one of our main problems. Is there really anything we can do about this particular issue?
-John
John, I agree regarding the sum of the article. I am not sure how to answer your question regarding if we can do anything. I think it is important to understand that they have very different practices than we are used to. A lot of culture differences as well as ethical differences.
~Ruth
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