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ELITE ISSUE 29, MARCH 2021

“Twenty-five years old! You

are a spinster. "

Gehad Yahia Mohamed

Third Level- Political Science

Life in the countryside and villages, no matter the warmth of The focus on marriage is on girls under the age of twenty,
simplicity and nostalgia that it gives you, remains full of thinking that they are thus more active and energetic and
burdens, on top of which everyone invades your privacy, and able to assume responsibility and have many children to
the constant surveillance of the details of your life. And the form what is called "family consolation".
fight against any desire to leave the swarm of customs and
traditions from which has become worthy of burial alongside
those who created it.
Second: The lack of readiness of youths
Marriage, like all other matters that are subject to these The term spinsterhood for girls from the age of twenty-five
outdated customs, is subject to the inherited culture and swarm and over, has no religion or knowledge involved in it, but
of customs. And starting from the concept of simple and outdated habits and intellectual retreat are the basis for these
uncomplicated living, as most of the people of the countryside ideas. Because the girl has no fault in delaying marriage, but
live in one house with multiple floors only, so marriage is the rather the youth are the main reason, because they are unable
desired goal.
to marry and provide for the expenses to start a family.
The family is the one that implanted in the young man the
First: Minors marry, and adult women fall into the trap of choice of age before anything else.
spinsterhood
Third: Realistic reasons for refusing to marry
We find girls flaunting their engagement and marriage project,
as if they have reached the highest ambition. If we look closely There are other reasons that lead to delaying the marriage of
at their age, we find that they are not over the age of eighteen, the girl, such as the lack of conviction in the person
so norms and customs proceeded to consider girls over the age proposing her engagement, fear and mistrust, and often
of twenty-five and over as falling under the category of because of the difference in the educational and intellectual
women, as they said. And the chances of marriage seem to level. And not encouraging of marriage from the ground up
diminish until they almost disappear, and the famous rural and to raise fear and warning processes led by married girls
example applies to them, "You missed the marriage age,"
to explain the failure of this experience, and invites them to
preserve their freedom for as long as possible. Married
women have a lot of responsibility, and after marriage, the
girl becomes lacking in her joy. Some of them are divorced
and have children, and their lives have changed. The
experiment in its outcome is not profitable, so why take the
risk, as they say !?

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