Ilham Al-Jafar Al-Sharq Poor or low-income environments, where ignorance and intellectual naivety is widespread, are very attractive to many men who do not find any deterrent in marrying poor young children. The result is always the same; the husband ends the marriage after a child or two ditching this young wife and her children leaving them to an unknown fate. She then starts a lifelong struggle searching for a source of income and sometimes she is forced to attend courts to fight for her financial rights in order to survive with her children. The crime of child marriage is still persistent where men continue this despicable behavior neglecting their responsibilities. The victims are always Saudi young girls from poor families or girls from Yemen or Egypt. There are many women, who still care and look after their children, yet do not have the official identification paperwork due to their husbands disappearing on them or denying their existence. These women live in tragedy especially when they want to enroll their children in school. Schools refuse to accept any children with no identifications such as birth certificates or personal IDs. Mothers resort to courts in order to get things straightened out, but courts and lawyers cost a lot of money and many of them cannot afford it. If men failed to meet their “maintenance” obligations as the Qur'an states, then there must be a suitable way to solve this problem. Why do children have to suffer and be prevented from getting a proper education due to men's immaturity and negligence? Why do they have to pay the price when laws and regulations fail to support them in their bitter realities? Mothers continue to fight for their children's education running from one educational office to the other in search of a way to get them enrolled. They also continue to search for ways to make a decent living and survive in dignity.
