Afghanistan: Skammen ved at have døtre

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Mange steder i Afghanistan er piger ikke i så høj kurs som drenge.
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Jamila says that she has become a social outcast, just because she has six female children.

The 45-year-old, who lives in the eastern province of Nangarhar, said that her daughters were also beaten and mistreated.

Fighting with the wives

Although attitudes are changing in urban centres and among the more educated, women are sometimes badly injured or even killed after being abused for their failure to have a male child.

Men often take one or more extra wives in their search to produce a male heir.

Men say they feel stigmatised by society if their wives fail to bear male children.

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