{"id":2688928,"date":"2026-10-21T08:24:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-media-discovers-new-excuse-they-say-is-driving-child-marriage-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T08:24:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:24:59","slug":"french-media-discovers-new-excuse-they-say-is-driving-child-marriage-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-media-discovers-new-excuse-they-say-is-driving-child-marriage-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"French Media Discovers New Excuse They Say Is Driving Child Marriage: Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrench-media-discovers-new-excuse-they-say-is-driving-child-marriage-climate-change%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2688928&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s pretty rare, these days, to find something out of France that absolutely gobsmacks you in terms of its cultural myopia.<\/p>\n<p>This is doubly true in the establishment media. After all, the city hall in Limoges burned during the unrest there, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-media-calls-riots-mostly-peaceful-french-limoges-town-hall-collapses\/\">it got called<\/a> a \u201cmostly peaceful\u201d protest.<\/p>\n<p>However, as air-quotes \u201cstudent\u201d protests against school conditions and austerity measures \u2014 in other words, fiscal continence \u2014 ignores the people who are behind them, we have a French media outlet discovering the reason for child marriage in certain parts of the world: climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing to do with cultural factors. Nothing at all. Instead, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leparisien.fr\/international\/elle-navait-que-12-ans-le-dereglement-climatique-nouvel-accelerateur-des-mariages-denfants-13-10-2026-ZXKF37KF75AZVHZTY74MLILRFE.php?at_variant=link&#038;at_creation=Le%20Parisien&#038;at_campaign=Partage%20Twitter%20CM&#038;at_medium=Social%20media\">Le Parisien<\/a> ran an article last week titled \u201c\u2018She was only 12 years old\u2019: climate change, a new accelerator for child marriages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You won\u2019t believe what a significant number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/9-year-old-sold-child-bride-gets-shocking-rescue-afghanistan\/\">these child brides<\/a>, married off tragically young, have in common. Or maybe you will. From a translation of the article, which was originally in French:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The chickens and ducks perished in the cyclone. With them, the meager family breadwinner. In Cox\u2019s Bazar, Bangladesh, Runa was 15 years old when her widowed and unworked mother married her to a stranger. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to get married. I wanted to continue my studies,\u201d she told the Australian channel ABC in July. In a few gusts, the storm chased her out of childhood.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This gear is documented in the annual report of Plan International, an NGO for the defense of children\u2019s rights, published a few days ago. Out of 5,000 young women interviewed in Bangladesh, Kenya, Peru, Senegal and Zimbabwe, 36% see more child marriages \u2013 before the age of 18 according to Unicef \u2014 after a climate shock. 11% say they themselves have suffered one. So far, however, these unions have been retreating.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, that\u2019s a large list of countries, but one in particular stood out:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em> In Bangladesh, climate change fuels an already massive practice. 51.4% of women aged 20 to 24 were married there before the age of 18, the highest rate in Asia according to Unicef. Especially since the vulnerability of the country is dizzying. In May 2024, Cyclone Remal exposed 8.4 million people, including 3.2 million children, to serious health and safety risks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In addition to precariousness, there is also fear. Orthi, a 16-year-old Bangladeshi high school student joined by videoconference by Le Parisien, raises her community\u2019s awareness of early marriages as part of an International Plan project. In this rural area close to the Sundarbans\u2019 mangrove forest, disasters throw families out of their homes and expose girls to more harassment. Marriage then turned into an illusory refuge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Orthi tells the lightning-fast one of a friend \u201cwho was only 12 years old\u201d. In an anticyclonic shelter, after the 2020 cyclone Amphan, \u201cboys were pulling on his scarf.\u201d They also grabbed her hands, reports the teenager. Residents intervene. But, back in the village, rumors and infamous comments hit the girl and her parents.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bangladesh is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-07\/2025%20Factsheet%20Bangladesh.pdf\">over 90 percent<\/a> Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>Not once was religion mentioned in the article, which came in the midst of riots that were driven, in no small part, by France\u2019s Muslim minority.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if climate change caused the riots, too!<\/p>\n<p>Online, Le Parisien\u2019s article drew derision from the Anglosphere \u2014 particularly in the United States, where noticing other causes of child marriage isn\u2019t anathema:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Psychotic.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not climate change that is accelerating child marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/2110003142251405360?\">October 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The problem with child marriage, also known as pedophilia, is not climate change, but Islam\u2026 and everyone who defends this practice!<\/p>\n<p>The article is hard to bear.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J.G.\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83e\udd85 (@Bleispit) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bleispit\/status\/2110298177022644331?\">October 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\">https:\/\/t.co\/zMrW8BGjnN<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Obadowski (@ObadowskiV) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ObadowskiV\/status\/2110474690045079655?\">October 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This would be risible if it weren\u2019t part of the package the French left is going to take away from the riots: It was totally about austerity and school conditions. That\u2019s why they were looting Louis Vuitton. Also, free Palestine!<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/french-authorities-admit-lost-control-severe-violence-leftists-sweeps-country\/\">burning down a historic building in Limoges<\/a> was all about, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0pHfnfJ3T5g\">Charlie Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Any culture that refuses to define what ails it is definitionally committing suicide. The French clearly cannot and will not wake up to what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-issues-dire-warning-french-amid-nationwide-rioting-paris-will-soon-muslim-city\/\">mass migration has done to their culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, they cannot see what the same elements do to other cultures, particularly when it comes to heinous practices like marrying off 12-year-old girls.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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