Most runaway Saudi girls — 51.4 percent — are aged 16 to 20, according to a study conducted by the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia).Yet the article doesn't mention a single reason why Saudi girls run away from home - even though that was the entire point of the study.
“Those in the age group of 21 to 25 came second among Saudi women who run away from their homes. They constituted 38.5 percent,” the study said.
The team studied the reasons why girls ran away from their homes and how to deal with them and help them integrate into society.
The study highlighted the efforts of the commission to confront the problem and reduce its complications by conducting seminars and lectures and distributing pamphlets.
The study emphasized the need for the presence of Haia officials at supermarkets and other public places to protect girls from falling prey people who exploit them.
“The Haia conducted this study in order to find out the reasons behind the phenomenon of runaway girls and how to solve it with the support of departments concerned,” an official statement said
Could it be that the Saudi implementation of Shari'a law - as embodied by the Hai'a themselves - has something to do with it?
Nah, that's crazy talk.