I am Nujood, Age 10, Divorced

Foreced to marry a man 3 times her age, Najood, age 10 became a wife. because married woman shouldn't be a student she had to drop out fo school. Though her father asked her husband to wait until after her first menstrual period before having sex,.....well, what's a guy to do? At 12 she boldly snuck her way to a courthouse, pleaded to see a judge and demanded a divorce. It was granted. Her story, told in the book "I am Nujood, Age 10, Divorced" tells a nightmarish story that is all to familiar in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. (Source: NYT, N. Kristoph)