In a society that does not value girls, you take risks if you care about daughters.

Would that females were valued everywhere, including here.

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/the-underground-girls-of-kabul/379762/?utm_content=buffer9f47e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer



The Afghan Girls Who Live as Boys
In a society that demands sons at almost any cost, some families are cutting their daughters’ hair short and giving them male names.
Jenny Nordberg
Photos by Adam Ferguson
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

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Mehran, age 6, first arrived at her kindergarten in Kabul as Mahnoush, in pigtails and a pistachio dress. When school shut down for a break, Mahnoush left and never returned. Instead a short-haired, tie-wearing child with the more masculine-sounding name of Mehran began first grade with the other children.

Nothing else changed much. Some teachers were surprised but did not comment except to one another. When the male Koran teacher demanded Mehran cover her head in his class, a baseball cap solved the problem. Miss Momand, a teacher who started her job after Mehran’s change, remembers being startled when a boy was brought into the girls’ room for afternoon nap time but realizing, as she helped Mehran undress, that she was a girl. Mehran’s mother Azita later explained to Miss Momand that she had only daughters, and that Mehran went as the family’s son. Miss Momand understood perfectly. She herself used to have a friend at school who was a family’s only child and had assumed the role of a son.

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