MM:
Difference is 70 R”Y disagree with your HO.
MM: on a previous page you asked where was the information on the Arab society documented. Here it is.
The world Atlas of the Arab World- Geopolitics and Society.
Written by Rafie Boustani and Philippe Fargues
Copyright 1990
on page 50-51
Polygamy and Repudiaton of the wife (remarriage taking place more rapidly for the man) are both predicated upon a surplus of women in relation to men on the “marriage market”. In a society that encourage women to marry early and men to marry later, at any given time male candidates for marriage are older therefore less numerous then their female counterparts. Because of purely numerical constraints some women marry for the first time men who are not bachelors themselves because they (the men) are either divorced (repudiation) or married (polygamny).
The age difference between spouses is the quintessential cause of the paired institutions of polygamy and repudiation.
Both of the practices (polygamy and divorce) fed on large age differences between spouses.
Divorce and Polygamy jointly act to regulate a marriage market where the age difference between spouses has brought a surplus of women available for marriage.
For the record:
This information was not part of the Age Gap study done in our communities. I don’t even think the people who did the Age Gap study nor the people involved in the NASI project are aware of this interesting tidbit regarding the Arab world.
A friend of mine who knows I have encouraged the NASI agenda, told me about this information a couple of months ago.