First Wife in Polygamy

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 Gulliver wrote:

I was wondering too. 

If there are multiple wives and countless children. What about the emotional welfare of those children ? Again, I am not talking about Islam only, if at all here. Same in Christianity of varying denominations.

Where there are very large families, and the parents struggle to even feed them all, let alone anything else.  Will the father love the children, all of them, and all equally, as all children are deserving of being loved.  

We are all profoundly impacted by the love, or lack of it, from parents - mother and father. 

Any of the ologists here can go off and do a study on the development of children in polygamous relationships.   There can be serious sibling rivalries when there is one mother and father. If there were many mothers, and the father did favour a wife and the child/children from that wife - that could have serious repercussions.   Be hair and nails flying everywhere. 

I don't see why there would be any real difference between children in polygamist families and those in step-families, or other alternate lifestyles. 

When parents divorce and remarry and step-siblings, half-siblings, etc come along the same questions and concerns arise. It all depends on the parents and how they handle the situation. 

In fact, since the dfivorce rate and non-marital pregnancy rates are so high, especially in the U.S., I think statistically most children have more than one mother or father figure or share a father with multiple children, or are being raised by a grandparent or relative other than the birth parent.  