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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/world/middleeast/23widows.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th
The latest plan, proposed by Mazin al-Shihan, director of the Baghdad Displacement Committee, a city agency, is to pay men to marry widows. “There is no serious effort by the national government to fix this problem, so I presented my own program,” he said. When asked why the money should not go directly to the women, Mr. Shihan laughed. “If we give the money to the [war] widows, they will spend it unwisely because they are uneducated and they don’t know about budgeting,” he said. “But if we find her a husband, there will be a person in charge of her and her children for the rest of their lives. This is according to our tradition and our laws.”
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