Systematic. Intended. Wowza.
‘Hasidic girls’ schools sometimes refuse to release transcripts to their graduates who need them for secular colleges.’
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To find a precedent for this grotesque behavior, you have to go back to ancient China, where women’s feet were deformed through binding, so that they would be more easily exploitable in work settings, or competitive in marriage.
In general, though, the phenomenon of a community intentionally disabling its own young people in order to force them to stay within the tight bounds – if you will – of the community is so perverted that it’s very hard to find any precedent at all.