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To: CVJ who wrote (801)	7/23/2002 11:23:03 AM
From: PatiBob	Respond to of 34894

How horrible! Why do families go to countries where their cultural practices are so far different from the country they're in and then expect life to go on as if they were still in their home country?

To: CVJ who wrote (801)	7/23/2002 11:46:32 AM
From: Sarkie	Respond to of 34894

That is just awful and sad to think that life under those circumstances still exist today.

To: CVJ who wrote (801)	7/23/2002 11:56:00 AM
From: Ish	Respond to of 34894

I'm afraid that is what happens when a culture stays 800 years behind the real world. Saddest part is the daughter was moving into and living a 21st Century existence.

To: CVJ who wrote (801)	7/23/2002 12:44:31 PM
From: Carolyn	Respond to of 34894

That happened to a Palestinian girl in St. Louis. Her mother held her while her father stabbed her. The elder sisters, married and living in Palestine, agreed with their parents. The crime: she was dating (if it can be called that) a black boy. The punishment: death penalty