Obama in Kenya: Female Genital Mutilation Is Indefensible

Source: Social Psychology Network NewsAs the first sitting U.S. president to visit Kenya, Barack Obama used the opportunity to call out the country for practices that harm women and girls. “There’s no excuse for sexual assault or domestic violence, there’s no reason that young girls should suffer genital mutilation, there’s no place in a civilised society for the early or forced marriage of children. These traditions may go back centuries; they have no place in the 21st c