Since stepping out of the shadows and sharing my story I have met many other child marriage survivors. There are common threads to our stores and stark differences as well. This week I would like to introduce you to a fellow survivor and now friend. For now I am linking her blog to mine so that you can learn about her and her journey directly from her. She has a different lived experience than me and shines light on another horrifying aspect of child marriage; spiritual marriages and being shipped outside your country! She will also be featured as a guest blogger soon!
Her amazing story of survival and her will to achieve her dreams can be found here:
https://tasneemsfadvocacy.home.blog/
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Published by Genevieve Meyer
Genevieve Meyer always felt like a throwaway child - a lost cause that no one wanted to invest anything into. "When I was married off at 15 that feeling was solidified. People knew it was going to happen. I even asked for help - a place to live, someone to intervene - but no one rescued me. I was just a 'poor white trash girl' with a difficult, mentally-ill mother and no one gave my being married off to a 42-year-old man a second thought."
Child marriage is currently legal in all but one state in the U.S. The repercussions of this reality are real - domestic violence, inability to complete education, lack of job skills - all leading to being trapped in the marriage.
Meyer has lived in the Fort Wayne area for 14 years. She recently earned her MBA, following completion of an undergraduate degree at Purdue Fort Wayne. She manages a mental health facility in Fort Wayne which helps children and their families heal from trauma. Driven by her own story of trauma, she works to advocate and educate about the harmful effects of child marriage.
She lives in the country with her husband of 12 years, and together they are raising 4 children and several animals.
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