One of her biggest challenges is to advocate for young women and children who find themselves rejected by their families once they have contracted HIV/AIDS from their husbands, who have often died or otherwise abandoned them. These women have no means by which to care for themselves or provide...
Marital status is also linked to emotional violence. Married women report lower emotional IPV than unmarried women [73]. Extramarital affairs increase the risk of all types of IPV [74,75]. The type of marriage, such as polygamy, is associated with higher emotional violence rates compared to mo...
Marital status is also linked to emotional violence. Married women report lower emotional IPV than unmarried women [73]. Extramarital affairs increase the risk of all types of IPV [74,75]. The type of marriage, such as polygamy, is associated with higher emotional violence rates compared to mo...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
BMC Infectious Diseases (2023) 23:817 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-023-08826-4 BMC Infectious Diseases RESEARCH Open Access Polygamy and safe sex negotiation among married women: evidence from Cameroon Satveer Dhillon1, Daniel Amoak1, George N. Chidimbah Munthali2*, Yujiro...
Though there have been increased reports of polygamy since leaving Syria, and multiple women described threats of this if they could or would not conceive, no participants reported having more than one spouse [20]. 4.2.3 Contraception usage Questionnaire findings demonstrated discussion and shared ...
Polygamy is defined as “a marital relationship involving multiple spouses” [4]. There are three types of polygamy: polygyny refers to “one husband [who] is married to two or more wives,” polyandry refers to “one wife married to two or more husbands,” and polygynandry refers to “a...
Most of the women we met were young, and at their age it is socially expected that they should have sexual relations with their husbands and have children. Not being able to fulfil these functions makes them question their femininity: "For me, the breast itself is femininity; if a woman ...