‘Informal polygamy’: a suitable case for treatment?

Rivett, Mark; Street, Eddy

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6427.1993.00743.x

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“…D'Hondt and Vandewiele (1980) reported that the majority of secondary school students in their study were against polygamy. Thus, in studies of both Arab and African cultures, polygamy has been shown to affect the women and their children emotionally, and to create an atmosphere of competition between both co‐wives and children (Oyefeso & Adegoke, 1992; Rivett & Street, 1993).…”

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“…Despite widespread academic interest in polygamy (see Altman, 1993; Chaleby, 1985, 1987; Chamie, 1986; El‐Islam, 1975; Haggi, 1974; Makanjuola, 1987; Topouzis, 1985; Welch & Block, 1981), relatively little research addresses family therapy among polygamous families in general and in Arab society in particular. Indeed, the closest published findings are on therapeutic dilemmas treating “informal polygamy” in a monogamous, Western society (Rivett & Street, 1993). The following study therefore contributes to a small but growing body of research differentiating skills needed for work with Arab‐Muslim families (Abdal‐Ati, 1974; Al‐Krenawi, Maoz, & Riecher, 1994; El‐Islam, 1983, 1989; Lipson & Meleis, 1983; Savaya, 1995; Weisfeld, 1990).…”

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Family Therapy with a Multiparental/Multispousal Family

Al‐Krenawi

1998

Family Process

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This article examines therapy with a Bedouin-Arab family from the Negev, Israel, which consisted of 69 members: a husband, 8 wives, and 60 siblings. The husband, who lived with his youngest wife, paid little attention to his other wives and their children. There was considerable competition, hostility, and jealousy among the wives; no communication between the co-wives or the children of different wives; and a variety of behavioral and psychosocial problems among family members. I describe the varied strategies and systems involved in family therapy. The main strategies were to establish good relationships among the co-wives and to build a coalition among them, including the youngest wife, through group therapy in a medical clinic. A secondary strategy was using the children's problems to get the husband involved in the therapy. With improvement of the children's functioning, and with reduced intra-subfamily hostility, the husband's relationships with his children and wives improved.

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Family Therapy with a Multiparental/Multispousal Family

Al‐Krenawi

1998

Family Process

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“…It has also been used synonymously with polygyny, there are several forms of polygamy: polyandry refers to the marriage of one woman to two or more husbands, polygyndry is a situation in which two or more women are at the same time married to two or more men, and polygynandry is used to refer to group marriage (Al-Krenawi and Graham 2009). The other type of polygamy is an informal polygamy which describes relationships characterized by the simultaneous existence of a legal marriage of one man to a woman and an affair with a second woman that has become a stable feature of the family structure (Rivett and Street 1993).…”

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A Comparison Study of Psychological, Family Function Marital and Life Satisfactions of Polygamous and Monogamous Women in Jordan

Al‐Krenawi

Graham

Gharaibeh

2011

Community Ment Health J

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This study surveyed a 2009 convenience sampling of 199 women, 93 of whom were first (or senior) wives in polygamous marriages and 106 were wives in monogamous marriages. We deployed the McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD), ENRICH marital satisfaction questionnaire, SCL-90 mental health symptoms checklist, Rosenberg self-esteem (SE) scale, and Diener, Emmons, Larsen, and Griffin life satisfaction scale, a basic sociodemographic scale, including attitudes towards polygamy. Women from polygamous families experienced more problems in family functioning, marital relations, and reported low self-esteem, less satisfaction with life, and more somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, paranoid ideation, psychoticism and their general severity index was higher (GSI). More women in polygamous marriages agreed with the practice of polygamy, as compared to their monogamous counterparts. The conclusion considers implications for mental health practice, policy, and further research.

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“…As seen in some regions in other countries, polygamy is a common condition, particularly rural villagers in southeastern region of Turkey. Some husbands were preferred to polygamy due to the various factors including the high economic level, infertility of their wife, religious beliefs, cultural factors, desire to increase the number of children, particularly sons or satisfaction of sexual desires, also existent psychiatric or medical disease of wifes 17,18,23 . Polygamy, in both high and low income households has negative consequences, for all family members.…”

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Diyarbakır ilinde çok eşliliğin aile üyeleri üzerindeki olumsuz etkileri

İbiloğlu

Atlı

Özkan

2018

Cukurova Medical Journal

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We aimed to here, determine whether the different sociodemographic and clinical variables of polygamous and monogamous marriages. Materials and Methods: 104 polygamous husbands with 56 monogamous husbands from Diyarbakir which located in southeastern region of Turkey, were face to face interviewed, by the researchers. Complaints of all participants were assessed through the SCL-90-R test. Results: Our findings show that about 75% of the husbands were pleased to in polygamous marriages. There was significantly differences between senior wives and junior wives' ages, in polygamous marriage. Polygamous husbands' GSI subscore, in SCL-90-R, along with their psychoticism, hostility and phobic anxiety's sub-scores were significantly higher than scores of monogamous husbands. Conclusion: A growing number of studies show that, polygamous marriage is associated with depressive and anxiety disorders, somatization disorders and a loss of selfesteem. In addition to, having the responsibility of supporting "multiple women and children", men can have different problems in a polygamous marriage. It should be noted that, polygamy is a complex phenomenon with deep cultural, social, economic, and political roots that has been associated with child's, husband's and wive's mental health symptoms. Our results, polygamous marriages are associated with higher risk for psychiatric disorders among the all family members, regardless of their education, family socioeconomic profiles and household composition as well as these results highlighted important implications for clinical practices and future researches. Amaç: Burada çok eşli ve tek eşli evliliklerin sosyodemografik ve klinik değişkenler açısından farklılıkları olup olmadığını araştırmayı amaçladık. Gereç ve Yöntem: Güneydoğu bölgesindeki Diyarbakır ilinde, araştırmacılar tarafından tek eşli evliliği olan 56 ve çok eşli evliliği olan 104 koca ve aileleri ile yüz yüze görüşüldü. Tüm katılımcıların şikayetleri, SCL-90-R testi aracılığıyla değerlendirildi. Bulgular: Elde ettiğimiz bulgular, çok eşli evlilikleri olan kocaların yaklaşık % 75'inin bu durumdan memnun olduğunu göstermektedir. Çok eşli evliliklerde, ilk eşler ile daha sonra evlenilen hanımların yaşları açısından belirgin farklılıklar olduğu saptandı. Çok eşli evliliklerde kocaların uygulanan SCL-90-R testi, GSI alt ölçek skorları ile psikotizm, düşmanlık ve fobik anksiyete alt ölçek skorları, tek eşli evlilikleri olan kocaların SCL-90-R testi alt ölçek puanlarından belirgin derecede yüksek bulundu. Sonuç: Çok eşli evliliklerde, erkeklerin çok sayıda kadın ve çocuğu destekleme konusunda sahip oldukları büyük sorumlulukların yanı sıra daha farklı sorunları da olabilir. Çok eşliliğin, derin kültürel, sosyal, ekonomik ve politik kökleri ile çocuk, koca ve eşleri de içeren tüm aile bireylerinin psikiyatrik sorunları ile ilişkili karmaşık bir fenomen olduğu unutulmamalıdır. Sonuçlarımız, çok eşliliğin görüldüğü aile yapılarında, ailenin sosyoekonomik profili, eğitimi ve hane halkının kompozisyonuna bakılmaksızın, tüm aile üyelerin...

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‘Informal polygamy’: a suitable case for treatment?

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Family Therapy with a Multiparental/Multispousal Family

Family Therapy with a Multiparental/Multispousal Family

A Comparison Study of Psychological, Family Function Marital and Life Satisfactions of Polygamous and Monogamous Women in Jordan

Diyarbakır ilinde çok eşliliğin aile üyeleri üzerindeki olumsuz etkileri

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