A quote found in blog Posted in Politics by eideard on June 13th, 2008
The Egyptian authorities have banned a 92-year-old man from marrying a 17-year-old girl, the Egyptian al-Akhbar newspaper has reported. The ministry of justice invoked a law which says the age gap between spouses should not exceed 25 years.
Egypt brought in the law prohibiting the marriage of elderly men to very young girls during the Gulf oil boom. It was an effort to prevent wealthy men from the Gulf states seeking young poor brides from the Egyptian countryside.
In special cases, the justice ministry does allow foreign men to marry Egyptian women more than 25 years their junior if they deposit a very large sum of money in the name of their wife at the Egyptian National Bank…
173 such marriages were allowed in the past year after the foreign husband deposited a sum equivalent to about US $80,000 and was screened.
Since I qualify as an Old Fart, I resent laws supporting age-ism.
I certainly would never spend $80K to pick up a spare spouse in Egypt. Besides, my wife would fracking kill me.
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