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Opium Brides 1ACChild brides face abuse Najibullah 8 (Farangis, Spero News, Jan 6 2008, http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=13404)IM UNICEF says child marriages are a reaction to extreme poverty. They mainly take place in Asian and African regions where poor families see daughters as a burden and as second-class citizens. The girls are given into the "care" of a husband, and many of them end up brutally abused. Moreover, they are often under pressure to bear children, but the risk of death during pregnancy or childbirth for girls under 14 is five times higher than for adult women. According to UNICEF, 57 percent of Afghan marriages involve girls under 16. Women's activists say up to 80 percent of marriages in the country are either forced or arranged. And the problem is particularly acute in poverty-stricken rural areas. In such places, many girls are forced into marriages when they are as young as nine or 10, says Khatema Mosleh of the Afghan Women's Network (AWN), a nonpartisan group of organizations that campaign for women's rights in Afghanistan. Most marry far older men -- some in their 60s -- whom they meet for the first time at their wedding. Opium Brides 1AC3. The abuse of these girls causes patriarchy and maintains a society of male dominance Starita 8 (Laura, Philanthropy Action, Apr. 7, 2008, http://www.philanthropyaction.com/nc/grim_news_from_afghanistan)IM Discourse is the term of power relations. It is comprehensive and different. For instance, Gender matter is promoting the justice to the unbalance. Hence, Resistance can occur everywhere. Foucault analyzes new society as a term of various and inflexible Society. “Although the subject….is socially constructed in discursive practices, she none the less exists as a thinking, feeling and social subject and agent, capable of resistance and innovations produced out of the clash between contradictory subject positions and practices” (Weedon,1987) Social discourse in Thai society, and in global society, expects a woman to be faithful wife, a good mother and to respect her husband. This expectation allows men to get away with the abuse of women, particularly in poverty-stricken areas. Violence is another realm where we are reminded of the narrowness of the scope of “social norms” and social theory by those whom the norms of civil order, of “civilization” have dramatically failed to protect: abused children, the sexually deviant and women who are kept in their place by physical force (Caroline Ramazanoglu,1993) leading to repeated domestic violence. Intimate violence, as part of a system of coercive controls, is a controlling behavior that serves to create and maintain male dominance and an imbalance of power between husband and wife. (Juanita M. Firestone, 2003) 4. Patriarchy is the root cause of war Workman 96 (Thom, Poli Sci @ U of New Brunswick, YCISS Paper no. 31, p. 7, January 1996, http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/publications/OP31-Workman.pdf)IM On the other side of the war ledger is the flight from the feminine. War is premised upon the understanding that the feminine is the enemy of the warring essence. It is imperative to emphasize that war is not neglectful with respect to woman, or that it is merely non-inclusive, hesitant, or reluctant. Rather, war is axiomatically bound up with the fear of the feminine. The ideology of war involves the presupposition that womanliness is antithetical to war, that it will undermine the warring ethic. Warfare presupposes that woman is the enemy of man's crowning practice. It identifies the feminine as the castrating enemy of the manly/war scheme. Any suggestion of gravitation towards the feminine is equated with the decay of masculine resolve. The flight from the feminine entails the simultaneous denial and appropriation of the things women do. Labels such as heroism, bravery, and sacrifice, for example, are reserved for war; the attendant pain and loss of life in childbirth is socially repressed.15 There is no equivalent effort to commemorate or celebrate the bringing forth of life. In fact, childbirth has been epidemiologized over the last century, while gestation and birth imagery has been appropriated by weapons designers. Birthing does not have the recollective equivalent of war. At best, the womb is enlisted to further the war project, that is, to insure future soldiering generations. Womanliness is domesticated, in a sense, to ensure that it does not undermine war. 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