The Federal National Council member, Musabeh Saeed Al -Ketbi, said that “spinsterhood rates between female citizens have increased to disturbing rates,” and revealed that “statistics carried out by universities in the state, showed that spinsterhood rates reach (60 % – 68 %) of the total number of female citizens, and that The number of Emirati women (who missed the age of marriage), reaches 175 thousand », while the Minister of State, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Marriage Fund, Dr. Maitha Salem Al Shamsi, refused to hand over the validity of these numbers, calling for an“ official census from the National Statistical Center ”, pointing to the absence of A clear definition of spinsterhood.
Al -Ketbi, who asked a question to Al -Shamsi during a session of the National Council held in Abu Dhabi, yesterday, insisted on the high percentage of spinsterhood between Emirati women, that the statistics referred to are “very close” to reality, and their conformity rate increases by 90 %, indicating that the official report is Issued by the National Statistics Center confirmed that the percentage of marriage to foreign women reached 20 % of the number of marriages in 2010
Al -Ketbi pointed out that «the prevailing custom in the Emirates is the girl who exceeded the age of 30, among the arrepties of marriage, regardless of the reason that prevented her marriage, is a study, psychological or health, and that society looks at this girl as (spinster ) ». He explained that «the problem of spinsterhood (great repercussions), especially in light of the reluctance of young people to marry, and the exaggeration of some families in the dowry and the network, which prompted the youth to marry in foreign women, and consequently the delay in the age of marriage, and the high rates of spinsterhood.
Al -Ketbi pointed to a “at a narrow level” poll, which showed that 38 % of the horses were late in marriage due to their merging in the labor market, 27 % of them went to study, and 5 % due to social and tribal customs, while 42 % was late in marriage due to the impact of the father And the mother. The poll also showed that 73 % of students see polygamy a solution for spinsterhood, while only 49 % of female students see a solution.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Marriage Fund, Maitha Al Shamsi, confirmed the inability to take these statistics, “because they are not reliable”, stressing that “any numbers on the subject must be issued by a responsible party, through which to communicate with all Emirati families, to determine the category of young men and women Then extract the numbers within the age of marriage. ”
She said, “We need accurate statistics to determine the size of the problem,” explaining that “there is no specific definition of spinsterhood, whether in Emirati society or other societies.”
And she saw that “spinsterhood has not yet become a problem,” stressing that “the delay in the marriage age has no one reason but rather reasons.”
She said that “the marriage fund conducted two studies of two problems that are related to the delay in the age of marriage in girls, namely the costs of marriage and marriage to foreign women”, and she continued that “the first study showed that 87 % of the sample confirmed that there is a link between the exaggeration in the requirements of marriage and the reluctance of youth from marriage, while The second study showed that the most important problems that result from marriage to foreign women is the high levels of spinsterhood among female citizens.
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