We can complain about it till kingdom come, but we women need to start raising our sons better. We need to teach them the true meaning of being a qawwâm. Allah tells us that the man is the head of the household, the Shepard of the flock, yet men are raised to hardly have any responsibility. How are women meant to trust and obey her husband when some cannot even trust their husbands to fulfill his role adequately?
In our culture, a woman is meant to display wifely qualities before marriage. She needs to know how to cook and clean. Help her hooyo with the siblings as tomorrow, she will have her own household to manage. In what ways are our men meant to prove themselves before marriage?
Absolutely sis.
As mothers, we should teach our sons to be responsible in general especially with his female relatives, how to be financially literate, how to be compassionate and how to control his desires. It is important to model good behaviour for children so they don't grow into destructive adults.
I really believe that if more men were truly responsible with how they handled polygamy, more women would volunteer to be part of it.
The truth is that most of these polygamy loving men are broke and irresponsible so being a 2nd/3rd/4th wife is just a way to shorten your life-expectancy.