One wife, two wife, three wife, four

Patrick

Muslim men are currently allowed to marry up to four wives, but the Muslim courts have to approve the multiple marriages before they take place. This has been contested by some woman's rights group in Malaysia, but to no avail.

However, Malaysia'a Islamic party has begun to tell Muslim men that, for their additional wives, they should take single mothers as opposed to "young virgin girls." The rational is that this will help relieve some of the burden on single mothers, seeing how the husband will need to be economically well off to even have a second, third, or fourth wife, and will not help those young virgin girls because they have no burdens as of yet.

The Islamic party also calls for Husbands who leave theri wives without good reason to be whipped under religious laws.

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