One of my ayeyo's married 4 times, it doesn't seem like there was much of a stigma attached to divorcees back then. I do remember my dad though telling my brothers to avoid divorcees with children* and that its too much of a headache, maybe thats just bc of where we live now.
This.
On an empirical basis i say, just a few days ago there was thread about a somali woman who had been married previously to 13 somali men in total. It's an exception but my point if that it's fairly common for somali men to marry women who've themselves have been married multiple times. i know of a couple such marriages where the women had been married 2-4 times before some even had 9 kids but they still got married. Have you ever had talks with somali women who're divorced & have non somali kids but want to get married to somali men ? if you ever get the chance ask them whether the ethnicity of their children plays a role in their efforts to get married again ?
I did concede and accept that it would be harder for such women but nonetheless this doesn't negate what i stated earlier that ethnicity of the children and men adds another issue all together. Are you trying to imply that there can't be a rational basis for rejecting them purely on ethnic grounds ? how were you able to make that distinction between what legitimately constitutes a rational and irrational aversion ? what criteria did you use to come to that conclusion ?
Assuming that there are 2 somali women divorced with children(kids from both fathers) and both of them have been married twice. The only difference between them is that one has somali kids the other non somali kids. Now both want to remarry again but to somali men who do you believe will find it easier or should i say which women will somali men consider ? will somali men reject them equally for the reasons you stated above ie kids from different fathers & failed marriages only ? will the ethnicity of the non somali kids not be taken into consideration as well ?
Waa runta that most somali men would reject such women but from the few men who would consider marrying them they will pick the woman who somali kids over the one who hasn't. This is my point, for them it's simply a compatibility issue & they don't need to know the inner reasons like in the OP's case whereby she hated somali men.
Out of all the guys who responded, you are the least dishonest, and that's saying something, but I'll give you some credit.
If you really want me to go into extreme cases like the lady with 13 husbands, and we all saw the nature of the responses to that; there's the common phenomenon of Somalis in the West marrying divorcées to have sex with them, and then they leave, case in point the 13 "marriages". There are handfuls of women like this in every community, whereas in the old days back home, although there are/were many women who easily had up to three or four marriages, there are stark differences in the environment, the reasons for divorce or multiple marriages, and in the nature of how the multiply-divorced Somali women fare/d there vs here, and usually in their case, the first one or two were arranged and the second or third of their choosing, one or two of them usually having been lost to conflict.
I have seen a Somali man marry a woman who had previously married an ajnabi and with a child from the previous marriage, but that was one failed marriage and one child. Generally, I don't see a trend of women who're married to ajnabis actively trying to marry from the Somali community, but with regards to failed marriages, even the once-divorced ones who have married from the Somali community have no perceptibly easier time of it for having had a Somali child(ren) vs a mixed child(ren), much as you'd 'hope' otherwise.
Having kids from different mothers or fathers and having multiple failed marriages is a rational reason to reject marrying the person, including for women when they're looking into eligible men, bc it indicates a trend of bad decision-making and failure to solve problems, not to mention it widens the scope of issues and hurdles you'll have to deal with, ie the previous partners, the childrens' adjustment to you or lack thereof, and being a father or mother figure to children that don't belong to you, etc. The race of the previous partners is irrational, bc it's a superficial dressing to the root of the actual issue. It's nothing more than a gut reaction to a perceived so-called rejection in the minds of these purists, hence the reason this hypothetical is based on the
repentance of the woman as if for
past wrongs against them
