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Why polyandry should be made legal in Kenya Updated Monday, April 7th 2014 at 10:40 GMT +3
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/enter...legal-in-kenya
Men have a knack for pushing their agenda, and trampling upon women without giving a hoot. They stop at nothing even if it means making it look like it is a basic necessity. They make it look like it’s a matter of life and death, even if it’s the most trivial of things. Thus, I was not shocked the other day when members of parliament wasted time debating and passing the Marriage Bill. I mean, in a country riddled with bigger problems such as high cost of living, terrorism and never ending corruption, how could they waste time pontificating marriage? Of all the things? In fact, what really excited them, I suspect, must have been the fact that the Bill had a clause allowing men to marry as many wives as they want. The Bill, which amended existing marriage legislation, makes it possible for a man to marry a second, third or even fourth wife without the consent of his first wife. How cruel! The proposed Bill had initially given a wife the right to veto the husband‘s choice, but as you can imagine, male MPs ganged up and pushed through a text that dropped this clause. Oh, how I wish they could unite on more urgent and important issues. POTENTIALLY POLYGAMOUS I did a little digging up here and there, and the reasons men gave for supporting the Bill on polygamy left me in stitches. Men’s reactions left me with one conclusion: women too should be allowed to have their cake and eat it. Ask any man and they will give you a boatload of reasons why the passing of the Bill is justifiable. And to top it all, they give that annoying ear-to-ear sheepish smile, which makes you imagine they know something you don’t know. The main reason men want to be allowed to marry as many wives as possible is that they are potentially polygamous.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/enter...legal-in-kenya
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/enter...legal-in-kenya
Men have a knack for pushing their agenda, and trampling upon women without giving a hoot. They stop at nothing even if it means making it look like it is a basic necessity. They make it look like it’s a matter of life and death, even if it’s the most trivial of things. Thus, I was not shocked the other day when members of parliament wasted time debating and passing the Marriage Bill. I mean, in a country riddled with bigger problems such as high cost of living, terrorism and never ending corruption, how could they waste time pontificating marriage? Of all the things? In fact, what really excited them, I suspect, must have been the fact that the Bill had a clause allowing men to marry as many wives as they want. The Bill, which amended existing marriage legislation, makes it possible for a man to marry a second, third or even fourth wife without the consent of his first wife. How cruel! The proposed Bill had initially given a wife the right to veto the husband‘s choice, but as you can imagine, male MPs ganged up and pushed through a text that dropped this clause. Oh, how I wish they could unite on more urgent and important issues. POTENTIALLY POLYGAMOUS I did a little digging up here and there, and the reasons men gave for supporting the Bill on polygamy left me in stitches. Men’s reactions left me with one conclusion: women too should be allowed to have their cake and eat it. Ask any man and they will give you a boatload of reasons why the passing of the Bill is justifiable. And to top it all, they give that annoying ear-to-ear sheepish smile, which makes you imagine they know something you don’t know. The main reason men want to be allowed to marry as many wives as possible is that they are potentially polygamous.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/enter...legal-in-kenya
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