«Thousands of young Afghan women have been expelled from school simply because they are married.[...]
A law passed in the mid-70s prohibiting married women from attending high-school classes was upheld in September by President Hamed Karzai's government[...]
Supporters of the legislation argue that the law protects unmarried girls in school from hearing explicit details about sex from their wedded classmates.»
well, it's not all that different (Score:2)