Psychosocial Impact of Polygamy in the Middle East

• Main Author: Al-Krenawi, Alean (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Psychotherapy.; Social work.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Social Sciences.; Social Work.; Cross Cultural Psychology.

Psychosocial Impact of Polygamy in the Middle East is the first scholarly volume to deal with plural marriage in the region in a comprehensive way. Its mixed-method research offers a new template for examining family structures including father-mother, father-children, and mother-children relationsh...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Polygamy Today
• Context and change: the structure of Arab society
• Polygamy, Islam, and marital justice
• The call for different perspectives: Methodology
• Discussion and Implications
• A proposed model for treatment of polygamous families
• Dealing with polygamous families and changing the rules.