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No, it wasnt hard. Because it was considered a "norm".
It may be hard for the father or husband to practice polygamy while keeping the peace in his family. Polygamy is illegal in all fifty states in the United Sates.
A patriarchial family is where the head of the family is the husband and the children's father. On demise of the father the inheritors are the mother and the sons. The lineage is from father to son to his son in matters of dominance and inheritance. When a girl marries she goes to live at her husband's home, which may have his parents and siblings. The contrast to patriarchial family is the matriarchial family.
He was a very nice young man, who had made the peace in this world. If it wasnt for him, I would never be here, he was my father. TEEHEE!
The daughter of a wealthy family was always much younger then the man she married, and her father would pay large downy to her husband's family
The women were always in charge of the household and they were to look after their family while the father/ husband and if they didn't then they would to take the consequences with it.
all family's wealth was passed to the nearest male relative upon the death of the husband/father. women were not allowed to own property.
Your husband cannot get joint custody of your children from a prior marriage. Custody arrangements are made between parents of children. Your present husband can legally adopt your children with their father's consent. He would then have all the legal rights and obligations of a biological father. The children would become his legal heirs-at-law.
It wasn't abuse. Mr. Ward did not want to be manipulated by the Copeland business. He did not want to work for his father in law. Mr. Ward wanted to support his family like any husband and father would. Kellie did not want to live her father's side and follow her husband, therefore the family fell apart and divorced followed.
Your father's sister is your aunt and her husband is your uncle. Some would say "uncle by marriage."
If the family did not have a male heir, all the family's wealth was passed to the nearest male relative upon the death of the husband/father. Women were not allowed to own property.
Your mother's new husband is your step-father and you are his step-son or step-daughter.