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**Queuerriptota** · 07-08-2009, 06:54 PM

What, it ruins the "value" of the daughter?

Are female offspring still seen as either property or liabilities? To be given in hopes of either Dowry (I am not sure if this is still practiced), or connections to family?

Not saying that the latter is foreign to us either, but it kind of turns my stomach that a father will kill his DAUGHTER because she slept with someone besides her betrothed.

If anything, you would think the father would try to kill the guy, but I guess that would be a bit difficult. Also, it IS the womans fault for luring the other guy, right?

Mo, sorry if this seems a bit insulting, but just the idea of killing a family member over this is astounding. It is like something out of the middle ages for most of us of European descent, and to think it is still being done in areas of the middle east is very disheartening.

07-08-2009, 06:54 PM	#8
Queuerriptota Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 346 Senior Member	What, it ruins the "value" of the daughter? Are female offspring still seen as either property or liabilities? To be given in hopes of either Dowry (I am not sure if this is still practiced), or connections to family? Not saying that the latter is foreign to us either, but it kind of turns my stomach that a father will kill his DAUGHTER because she slept with someone besides her betrothed. If anything, you would think the father would try to kill the guy, but I guess that would be a bit difficult. Also, it IS the womans fault for luring the other guy, right? Mo, sorry if this seems a bit insulting, but just the idea of killing a family member over this is astounding. It is like something out of the middle ages for most of us of European descent, and to think it is still being done in areas of the middle east is very disheartening.
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