Aden – Heba Al-Wahali – During the past hours, social networking sites witnessed the circulation of an advertisement attributed to a Saudi teacher offering 400,000 Saudi riyals to anyone who would marry her and satisfy her desires with halal, according to what was stated in the circulating advertisement.
The teacher said, according to what was circulated in the advertisement, that she is 39 years old and is afraid that she will miss the train of marriage, and that she will not enjoy married life, especially since her desires are unbridled and she is afraid that she will become weak and fall into forbidden things.
The teacher explained that she had a beautiful and graceful body and had wheatish skin. She explained that she had been rejecting all marriage offers over the past years because she was busy taking care of her elderly mother, who died three years ago.
She said that after her mother died, she found herself alone and in need of a man to share her remaining life.
The teacher explained that she has a government job and works as a teacher in one of the schools in Riyadh and has a large salary, indicating that she will pay the groom 400 thousand Saudi riyals for the costs of the marriage, and will give up her dowry.
The teacher set one condition that the groom must meet, which is that he must be of good character, religious, affectionate, and value married life.
Although some people were skeptical about the circulating advertisement, it witnessed widespread spread on social media platforms.
Many social media users ruled out the reality of the advertisement, especially since it had an unknown title and did not contain any means of communicating with the teacher to whom the advertisement was attributed.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia suffers from the phenomenon of high spinsterhood, like most societies, but in varying proportions. Female spinsterhood is calculated after they reach the age of twenty-five and thirty years, while the results of the survey related to the average age at first marriage for Saudi males in the Kingdom to the age of twenty-six years, while The average age of first marriage for females is twenty-one years old, according to statistics from the General Authority for Statistics in the year two thousand and sixteen AD.
The percentage of spinsterhood in Saudi Arabia in 2023 AD reached 10.07%, specifically (227,860) females over the age of 32 who were not married.
According to the report of the General Authority for Statistics, the total number of males and females – 15 years and over – reached 14 million and 215 thousand and 901 people, including seven million and 248 thousand and 117 males, and six million and 967 thousand and 748 females, and three million and 6480 of them were never married, that is, It exceeds 41% of the male population. As for females, their number exceeded two million, 237,983, representing more than 32% of their population. The number of married males exceeded four million, 127,000, representing 48% of their population. As for married women, their number exceeded four million, 132,000, representing about 68% of females.
There are many reasons that led to the increase in the rate of spinsterhood among females in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The first reason was the increase in dowries, as indicated by the economic advisor, Muhammad bin Saud. He stated that marriage has become a matter of buying and selling, and if customs and traditions remain as they are, fathers will become arrogant. To sell their daughters at a public auction, in addition to the fact that high dowries lead to a high rate of spinsterhood among females in most societies, specifically Arab societies, and we will learn about the causes of spinsterhood in Saudi Arabia:
• High dowries.
• Marrying foreign women.
Dr. Lamia Abdel Mohsen Al-Ibrahim said that this is possible through the state providing some good loans for marriage, and it is also possible to intervene to reduce dowries and marriage expenses, especially since some wedding parties reach 250 thousand riyals.
She added that the issue of customs related to not marrying except those from the tribe must also be considered, which has a significant impact on the issue of abstention from marriage.
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