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Discussion and Implications

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Psychosocial Impact of Polygamy in the Middle East

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Abstract

This chapter results in conclusions related to monogamous and polygamous marriages in the Bedouin-Arab population. These conclusions are based on the statistical analysis we saw in the previous chapter.

Some conclusions were reached via a number of correlations between economic status and family functioning for men, women, and children.

Many of the issues researched were found to be more severe in polygamous marriages related to relationships between the subfamilies (children and wives). Other issues include educational issues of the children and the lack of such among the adult parties in the family, negativity to the polygamous form of marriage by the children of such, low self-esteem, and more.

In short, polygamy is bad not only for the children of these polygamous families, but also for Bedouin-Arab and Israeli society as a whole.

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Al-Krenawi, A. (2014). Discussion and Implications. In: Psychosocial Impact of Polygamy in the Middle East. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9375-4_5

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