"Daywalk3r" wrote:
probs a v.silly question but what impact would there be on children's minds if polygyny was practiced by a young father raising his family in the West. In UK/USA/West polygyny is virtually non-existent so if a young father went and married a second women when no one else has in his entire area/region ever (i.e. so it 100% not the norm), how would his kids react ?
If you ask me or my kids then the answer would be such that there would be no denial. The western world would laugh at us if they saw our miswaks, so what! The western world can't understand why we want to follow a specific law, the western world can't understand how we can LOVE a man more than out entire generation
but our children can, Alhumdulillah.
The Prophet
and countless Sahabah practiced it. The western world looks at the Muslims and say that we are behind, but we have or should have brought our kids up with the right mind and education. I don't see how this would affect the children. If anyone was to be affected, then it would be the wife. Boy oh boy! TThat's when your talking trouble, especially if the wife is not a pious wife and is very sensitive.