Rural bride fair
February 23rd 2010 21:47
For girls in the close-knit Kalaidjii clan, the annual bride fair -- a kind of annual debutante ball -- offers the best hope of a stable future, which often means marriage at 16 or 17 and a life of keeping house and raising children.
A Bulgarian Roma woman from the close-knit Kalaidjii clan poses during a bride fair in the village of Mogila, some 240 km (149 miles) east from the capital Sofia, February 20, 2010.
Credit: REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
link to the 16 and 17 year old girls looking for a future as a rural bride in Roma
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