Iraqi Widows Have Nowhere to Turn, Except Prostitution

You would think the anecdote about coffins in Iraq would top the list of stories about the newfound life there:

Cost of a coffin in Baghdad: $50-75. Cost of a coffin in Saddam Hussein's time, $5-10.

And then there is the prostitution.

According to a number of reports (Al Jazeera, CNN, the Telegraph), Iraqi widows, and there are now many of them, are prostituting themselves to pay for healthcare and food for their children.

Humanitarian groups say that it is a combination of violence, inflation and no federal support that leave the women with little other option.

Worse? Iraqi families are selling their daughters to survive.

Comments

[jazeerasand]

I think someone backslid from the decade he so misses ,dug out his old heavy metal tapes and smoked some weed and got deep. This reporter sounds like a late night discourse amongst some freshman poli-sci majors; some jackasses who think they are brilliant while they're really 40 watt dim bulbs.
"You've been with the professors and they've all liked your looks/

With great lawyers you've discussed lepers and crooks/

You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books/

You're very well read ,it's well known/

But something is happening and you don't know what it is
Do you, Mr. Jones?"

-Bob Dylan
"Ballad of a Thin Man"