THERE has been much hullabaloo about teen marriages lately. What bothers me is the labelling of men who marry their young brides as paedophiles.
I come from a family whose culture is to marry their daughters young. My grandmothers, aunts and my mother were in their early teens when they got married and had children. The men who married them are respectable members of society whom I admire and love.
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