Saturday Link Love: Today’s Rebels, Child Brides, and Au Pairs

Saturday Link Love is a feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

Today’s Rebels Are Model Children, on The Atlantic—“These young people do grit and gumption with star-pupil poise and politeness. ‘Sorry for the inconvenience,’ read one teenager’s sign at the Washington, D.C., rally. ‘We’re trying to change the world.'”

A Gym Built on Fear, on CNN—“Late one night in the fall of 2012, 17-year-old Brittany Aragon overdosed. She took four Valium pills, lay down in bed and waited.”

Inside America’s Shocking Child Bride Epidemic, on the Sun—“I was 13 when my mum made me get married in our living room – then she told us to have sex in a room next door.”

Au Pairs, an International Class of Domestic Workers, Are Suing for Labor Protections, on Jezebel—“When Linda was hired as an au pair for a family in Texas with three kids, she was promised 45 hours of work each week, plus room and board and an opportunity for enriching field trips and a chance to immerse herself in a new culture.”

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