Traditional Khmer rules for men and women

Many Cambodian women are expected to follow some archaic rules like:

• No sex before marriage  & No boyfriend
• Come back home before sunset
• Obey parents decisions including their choice of husband – arranged marriages are still common
• Study only till primary school after which their parents will force them to stop as they are expected to become just a house wife after marriage.

Rules for men:

• Men need to study hard or get working skills  because they are expected to support the whole family after marriage.
• Hand over their income to their wives (some men who keep it all are treated like ‘Lady Boys’)
• Men need to become a monks at least one time to learn buddhist virtues such as patience, gentleness and understanding, and as a form of gratitude and respect to their parents for  bringing them up.

People mostly living depending on agriculture ( rice, corn, potato , tapioca …etc ) people still living and crowing all agriculture by their old tradition like cows or Buffaloes for transport their stuff from and to their fields.