Each family considers itself as belonging to a higher class than the other and they do not forgive this supposed class difference. All this together with the difficult economic situation in Egypt has led to the crippling of marriage among Copts. Some statistics point out that more than half a million Coptic girls are over the age of thirty without being married. Of course, those girls may consider marrying Muslims. Because this kind of marriage is built from the very beginning on the wrong bases, family problems begin very soon.
Children find themselves in disjointed families.
Coherence in society is illusive and families are fragmented. Most of the girls who grow up in such families marry Muslims. The liberal principles and those of false freedom, which are spreading among the Coptic higher classes. While the phenomena of converting to Islam spreads among the marginal Coptic classes, the phenomena of marrying Muslims spreads among the higher classes, who believe that this is elevation. I do not know the meaning of this elevation, which turns a Christian girl into a slave and her children into Muslims, whilst her brother cannot marry a Muslim woman.