‘When she turns eight they will take her’: rising number of Afghan girls being sold into child marriage

Afghanistan is seeing a resurgence in underage brides and mothers as desperate families sell their children in order to eat…

 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/15/afghanistan-girls-sold-into-child-marriage

 

Lawsuit claims home for vulnerable girls was a "house of horrors"

Allegations in the lawsuit range from unsanitary or inadequate living conditions, to improper use of restraints, to physical and sexual abuse, said Moose Scheib, one of the attorneys behind the lawsuit. 

One common tactic Vista Maria staff used, according to Scheib, was to put girls as young as 12 on unnecessary psychiatric medication, claiming they were suicidal. Then they would strip the girls of their clothes and lock them in a room, supposedly for their own protection...

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-justice-legal-system/2026-04-15/lawsuit-claims-home-for-vulnerable-girls-was-a-house-of-horrors 

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man

The man noticed that posts encouraging him to "get Threads", Mark Zuckerberg's rival to Elon Musk's X, were being dropped into his Instagramfeed featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names. 

The children's images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school. The parents were unaware that Meta's settings permitted it to do this. One mother said her account was set to private, but the posts were automatically cross-posting to Threads where they were visible. Another said she posted the picture to a public Instagram account. The posts of their children were highlighted to the stranger as "suggested threads"…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man

 

Study On Teenage Girls Highlights Troubling Trends | HuffPost HuffPost Personal

Two-thirds of girls are silencing themselves to be accepted...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teenage-girls-study_n_674930ade4b0d2a906b90bbe?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

Leaks just exposed how toxic Facebook and Instagram are to teen girls and, well, everyone

A world with Facebook is going to be crueler, stupider, and more deadly than one without Facebook…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/18/facebook-instagram-zuckerberg-teenagers

Underage girls for sale in Hyderabad: First as a bride, then a sex slave as part of 'contract marriage' racket in city - Firstpost

A contract marriage is a prevalent practice in the city involving agents and Gulf nationals, who arrive in India on a visitor visa They lure poor families and convince them to marry off their daughters for a sum of money which is often less than a lakh rupees .....
https://www.firstpost.com/india/underage-girls-for-sale-in-hyderabad-first-as-a-bride-then-a-sex-slave-as-part-of-contract-marriage-racket-in-city-7982071.html

Rise Up - Girls' Choir of Wilmington

Interview:
https://youtu.be/P-Yr9GsWkNk

Democratic lawmaker on detained children: ‘Where are the girls?’ - The Washington Post: Analysis

Many of the photos depict only boys and young children, leaving questions. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/06/22/democratic-lawmaker-on-detained-children-where-are-the-girls/

The AFA SAys Allowing Girls To Join The Boy Scouts Is Satanic - YouTube - RWW News

Tim Wildmon and Ed Vitaglino of the American Family Association say that allowing girls to join the Boy Scouts is "satanic" and part of a "war against God."....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgSzW5wP_Yk