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Economic hardship changes marriage trends in Jordan
Doron Peskin
Published: 03.01.10, 14:49
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1. So maybe it's good if Jordanians sell cucumbers to Israelis
Zvi   (01.03.10)
for higher prices and hard currency, eh? Brings some solid cash into rural areas of the kingdom.
2. Delayed marriages mean more fallen women, many
Rivkah   (01.03.10)
of whom never marry because the males don't want them or they don't want to be subject to a male. It is better to marry young and have a baby before the age of 18. That is the best lifelong protection from breast cancer there is for women. Rabbi Yeshua was born when his mother was 15 years old. When a female starts menstuating, it is time to get married. Careers and study can come later with Grandma babysitting. Studies in the West show that women who put education and careers first before marriage and a family are not happy in the long run. When I went to Pharmacy College at the University of Arizona long ago as a young married woman who married before twenty, there were about a third of the students who were female and most were married with children. A few were single and graduated single and most of them stayed single since the marriage market for most females is brief.
3. Yes, Rivka, lets get all Girls married as soon
Esther ,   Ofarim   (01.03.10)
as they start menstruating. Some of them as young as 10 or 11. It's such a wonderful idea. Spares all the agonies of having to guide your daughter through teenage years, or, G-d forbid educating them. After all, it was just an accident that females were blessed along with their womb. Surely that was overlooked during creation. Don't you ever get tired of hearing your own voice? Maybe you need your husband to keep you pregnant so you won't have so much time to waste.
4. Rivka
Charles   (01.04.10)
Rivka.. you have your heart in the right place... but your mind is mushed up. A young innocent girl, getting married just becoz she can menstruate.. this is madness... .
5. 3 Esther: Because of pesticides and plastics in foods, as
Rivkah   (01.04.10)
well as hormones in the milk and meat, females as young as six are getting pubic hair and breasts. That is abnormal, as is menstuation at 10 or 11. But greatly delaying marriage a long time after menstruation begins is not the way God intended. A cat gets pregnant as soon as it goes into heat. Human females are put on oral contraceptives from menstruation in many if not most families for fear of out of wedlock pregnancies since the children are thrown to the wolves at an early age. Do I get tired of my voice? Do you get tired of reading my posts? Apparently not. When I was 17, the Lord told me He had a plan for my life but that would require me not to have children. I cried and said to the Lord that His will is best and agreed to whatever the plan was. When I married, my husband's family I had not met did not come to the wedding. We were friends in college and drove to his mother's house in another State after the wedding. The first thing she said to me when she met me at the door was, "Don't ever have his children. His father and grandmother had multiple sclerosis." I said to the Lord, "Praise God. I know you plan for me was to look after Joseph and I will do my best." He could handle the stress of work but a child in the house is what triggered the M.S. in his father and grandmother, so my life would be childless. The Lord asked me to do His will and I did the best I could.
6. Give 25 years salary to every "palestinian" family that
jae ,   lynn usa   (01.04.10)
emigrates out of israel into Jordan for example.. Win-win situation. 100kper family of 8; 1 million per 10 families of 8; 10 million per 100 families of 8 100 million per 1000 families of 8 1 billion per 10,000 families of 8 10 billion per 100,000 families of 8 20 billion per 200,000 families of 8 =1.6 million palestinians, or all those in Judea & samaria Put another way Israel has spent 100 billion in the war of palestinian terror since 1993 oslo accords. 20 billion is a bargain, and better yet, no more palestinian problem. Even if only 50% go thats a huge reduction- equivalent of the russian aliyah of jews in the 1990s.
7. to #9 how about suing palis for lost of income
ghostq   (01.04.10)
due to 9 years of rockets in sderot area, or high car insuranse premi for auto theft (that 98% of the cases r made by palis).
8. Jordan is the eastern part of Israel
Trumpeldor ,   decaying eurabya   (01.04.10)
Bedui tribes will never succeed to turn it into a economical success They should return to their beloved peninsula and turn the territory to jews as planned by the San Remo binding clauses in 1923
9. Rivka, could you just do your work a little more quiet?
Esterh ,   Ofarim   (01.04.10)
You really do talk to much.
10. 9 Ester, Ofarim: Why do you read my tb's? Hmm?
Rivkah   (01.05.10)
You really do read too much if what I say upsets you. So stop reading. By the way, I write but do not speak online. But you have a language and perception problem that I cannot help you with. What you really hate is the Lord and His Torah and Tanakh. Hmmm?
11. 3,9 Esther: I have six nieces. The only one who married
Rivkah   (01.05.10)
got married while still in college. The others are now in their mid to late thirties and are fallen and single. That seems to be the pattern on a larger scale in Western nations. The solution is to go back to the old paths that Jeremiah the Prophet said were the good way. Since you hate the Torah and Tanakh and the old paths, we have nothing in common. That is true also of my nieces with whom I have nothing in common since they hate God, too. That is not my problem. It is their problem since they have chosen to go to hell after death and I choose life. The one niece who married does believe in the Lord and the Bible, but sadly for her she slandered me and rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love and assistance. I do not pray for such people and Y'hovah told Job in the Bible that if Job did not pray for the people who slandered Job, Y'hovah would not accept them. There is not much hope for the younger generations who hate God. I don't want people in heaven who slander me and reward me evil for good and hatred for my love, so let them go to hell. You are welcome to go there, too.
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