This issue is more complicated than it seems to westerners.
In an article by Daily News Egypt, a mother who had been married at the age of 14 herself said about her daughter, Nora, "Whatever you do people will talk to dishonour you in a way, that’s why I preferred for Nora to get married as early as I did; to protect her chastity. . . In our norms and traditions, because we’re originally from a rural area in Fayoum, the girl gets married early because if she passed 16 years old she is said to be a spinster and has missed the right age for marriage.”
“We just marry out children early to protect them. Because Nora’s body is a woman’s body, she shouldn’t wait for too long.”
http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2012/12/05/under-reported-and-underage-early-marriage-in-egypt/
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