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I am not sure if I made it clear that this conference needs a crash course in conference organization 101, but if didn’t… well now you know! Today is day four and there is literally nothing to do for the youth delegates. I began to think what can I do to make this day interesting and, at the end of the day, have something worthy of writing a page on. I sat for an hour pondering what to do and then decided to interview the over flow local youth present.
An interest was sparked when a young girl, age 14, told me her boyfriend “is only 20” and it’s perfectly normal here in León, Mexico. This little girl who looked no more than 8 years old was happy to share her relationship with me , including photos of her and her boyfriend kissing and cuddling. The news became not only shocking, but disturbing that in a perfectly modernized society parents allow their young girls to date older MEN… not older boys but older MEN.
First, let me say despite my initial interviewee looking younger than her age almost every girl I saw and interviewed in Leon, Mexico looks five to six years older than they are. According to Andrew and Czar, two young girls crazed that teenagers’ relationships are not discussed in the home and early sexual initiation is very high in Mexico. They assured me that the four couples of young middle and high school students I saw on the street kissing is very common and I should not be alarmed. The first young male I spoke to informed me that his parents are ok with him having a girlfriend that much younger or else he will be teased or the family will be teased. His comment was supported by his group of five friends who all have girlfriends that are much younger than they are.
I, then, decided that I need to know if these young girls are comfortable dating much older men, so after five minutes I negotiated with a group of high school girls to be interviewed in exchange for a picture they insisted that I take with the group. The results were the same as those of my male participants; many of these girls enter relationships based on peer or family pressure. Many parents are ok with the enormous age gap between their young daughters and older boys under the rule that the family gets to know the boy or, in most cases, man. Interestingly, child marriages are not widely supported in Leon.
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Interesting. I didn't know about that. Did any of the people you talked to explain why they looked for a partner that was so much older or younger than themselves? Or why they were unwilling to date someone their own age? Did they try to explain that?
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