Muslim scholars in Egypt on Sunday criticised aspects of a new law on children approved by parliament on Saturday against the opposition of the socially conservative Muslim Brotherhood The scholars said the legislation went against Islamic law by allowing women to register children under their own family names and by setting 18 as the minimum age for marriage. Under the previous law, children had to take their family name from their father, even if his identity was in doubt. A separate law, which remains in force despite the new legislation, allows girls to marry at 16 and men at 18. In the countryside some girls still marry at a younger age.
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09-06-2008, 05:59 PM
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