The Women and Children of Afghanistan

 

 

 

The women of Afghanistan today have a hard and sometimes tragic life. Women have about 6 pregnancies during their fertile years, but only about 4 of those succeed in to a healthy baby, with husbands who are usually 3 times their age.1/10 Children in Afghanistan die before the age of 1, which contributes to the hardship of children and women of Afghanistan. Women are expected to live only until the age of 51, which they have to live with wearing burkas, and even covering their eyes their whole life.  Multiple pregnancies are hard on a women, and with each pregnancy a woman's risk of dying increases.

since the Taliban regime in supreme power, all women are considered to cover themselves from head to toe completely. Since women with jobs was forbidden, they became forced into  beggars and prostitution to feed their families. People who were accused of prostitution are publicly stoned, in a soccer stadium located in Kabul.

 

Another tragedy is for the Shi'a women this is because of their strict and obscure rules.

 

* Denies women the right to leave their homes unless Mahram, which is an immediate male relative.

* Forbids women from working or receiving education without their husbands’ express permission;

* Explicitly permits marital rape

* Diminishes the right of mothers to be their children’s guardians in the event of a divorce;

* And makes it impossible for wives to inherit houses and land from their husbands – even though husbands may inherit immovable property from their wives.

These rules show how unprivileged these women are in Afghanistan, and how everyone looks upon them. Afghanistan has now lowered the polls in self Immolation, which is to set themselves on fire.This is because  these wives feel that this is the  only way they can escape their horrible lives, and husbands.