Kedah Exco Wants Everyone To Help Unmarried Women Find Partners
Most of these women are said to be the ones with high financial status.
By Nandini Balakrishnan — 19 Aug 2016, 10:46 AM
Kedah Exco Datuk Mohd Rawi Abd Hamid has urged all parties, including NGOs to assist unmarried women with finding a partner
According to the Kedah Religious Committee chairman, women with strong financial status are usually too shy to seek out potential partners as they fear the idea of being branded as desperate for men
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Image via Malay Mail OnlineAccording to a report by Free Malaysia Today, Mohd Rawi thinks that these group of unmarried women are usually academicians, widows or even young women that have gone for too long without a life partner.
"I had the experience of working with an NGO where we provided a match-making service to encourage them to marry and in the first month alone we managed to register 25 unmarried women.
"From this total, 10 of them were professional women working in institutions of higher learning, either as lecturers or academicians," added Mohd Rawi at the State Assembly when answering a question on the government's efforts to tackle the rising divorce rates, today, 19 August.
Concerned, Mohd Rawi also urged an unnamed NGO that is fighting against polygamy, to forward their proposals on battling the issue to the government as soon as possible
"What are these NGOs doing to help these professional women who have been swindled by foreigners in love scams as these victims are actually looking for love and in need of a husband," he asked, as reported by Free Malaysia Today.
Meanwhile, responding to a question by PAS Merbau Pulas' Datuk Siti Aishah Ghazali on divorce rates in Kedah, Mohd Rawi said that there is a steep incline with 5,184 cases in 2015 compared to 4,803 in 2014
He added that khalwat offences too had increased from 387 cases in 2014 to 440 cases in 2015.
Mohd Rawi also urged the Attorney-General’s Chambers to discuss with the Kedah Judicial Council on ways to control the growing number of illegitimate children which had been a usual occurrence in states which share the Thai border.
"I am sure there are thousands out there who are suffering due to the strict regulations," he said adding the law should be more flexible in legalizing marriages to help people living with the predicament.