Dr. Shehu Aboki, a lecturer in the Department of Islamic Studies, Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto, says Islam encourages polygamy to protect the dignity of women, save them from bondage and maltreatment by abusive husbands. Aboki made the observation at the launch of a book titled: ‘A Roo...
When she was an adult she started having sex with multiple partners who were all aware of each other. “Four of her current nine co-husbands were in that first group of boyfriends.” In polyandry, the woman often initiates the relationships and invites the husbands to join her unio...
It also brought men's competition for wives in line with wives' competition for husbands. The research also revealed that while polygamous men had dozens of children, the practice of having multiple wives (and thus sexual partners) had the opposite effect on women: For every wife added to ...
asuffering from consequences of the conflict in Chechnya. In this region, 遭受冲突的后果在车臣上的。 在这个区域,[translate] apolygamy, endorsement of honor killings, encouraging husbands to keep women caught in conflict 187 一夫多妻,荣誉杀害,保留妇女被捉住的令人鼓舞丈夫的背书在冲突187[translate]...
Aubrey Chaves experienced a personal faith crisis as a young married adult relating to Church history and polygamy, and wondered if she should continue to be a member. Through a lot of questions and exploration, she expanded her faith and transformed her spiritual life. She now hosts the Faith...
Other negative consequences associated with polygamy included feelings of distress and entrapment, the lack of control that these women have over their sexuality, the humiliation that they experience due to constant conflicts with co-wives, favouritism and neglect by husbands, and the risk of ...
such as polygamy, finance, land ownership, education, widowhood, and others, where women’s actions are closely intertwined with those of other community and family members and from which they cannot be extracted to act as autonomous individuals. However, when one part of that community constructio...
3. Hutu women, be vigilant and try to bring your husbands, brothers and sons back to reason. Tutsi family These “commandments” laid the groundwork for the humiliation of women to come during the genocide between April and July 1994 when millions of people were massacred and as many as 50...
We may love our daughters with all our hearts, but we must train them through pain. We love our sons most of all, but we can never be a part of their world, the outer realm of men. We are expected to love our husbands from the day of Contracting a Kin, but we will not see th...
Recognizing the social ecology of IPV (Heise, 2011; C-Change, 2012), the intervention engages actors across multiple domains of influence, including family members and community leaders, in addition to the primary target audience of reproductive age women and their husbands. As a social behavior ...