Olive, yes, rules in the West are (always) changing. But as far as I know there is no provision at all once custody has been awarded to take account of how a subsequent remarriage may affect things.
Sorry, Nic, I don't understand. I don't think there are any statistics for this from the Gulf. In fact, there couldn't be, since there aren't step-parents.
The Sharia approach was obviously worked out according to the experience of the people who invented it (I don't believe the God-given-law stuff). There weren't any statistics back then.
I'm not justifying it. I'm seeking to understand what happened, how and why. The concept behind this aspect of Sharia seems to me to be very important to understanding what occurred and where things are likely to go from here.
I don't see how this law can be outdated if a woman who remarries is effectively saying that she is willing to accept (according to Olive's figures) a 10% risk of her child being abused in order to secure her own marital happiness. I guess Sharia says "choose between your child or remarriage".
The question I haven't seen the answer to is why this wasn't a problem for the family during the first 10 years of the child's life and then they decided to invoke the law, four years after the father's death and five years after the mother remarried.
Olive, yes, rules in the West are (always) changing. But as far as I know there is no provision at all once custody has been awarded to take account of how a subsequent remarriage may affect things.
Sorry, Nic, I don't understand. I don't think there are any statistics for this from the Gulf. In fact, there couldn't be, since there aren't step-parents.
The Sharia approach was obviously worked out according to the experience of the people who invented it (I don't believe the God-given-law stuff). There weren't any statistics back then.
I'm not justifying it. I'm seeking to understand what happened, how and why. The concept behind this aspect of Sharia seems to me to be very important to understanding what occurred and where things are likely to go from here.
I don't see how this law can be outdated if a woman who remarries is effectively saying that she is willing to accept (according to Olive's figures) a 10% risk of her child being abused in order to secure her own marital happiness. I guess Sharia says "choose between your child or remarriage".
The question I haven't seen the answer to is why this wasn't a problem for the family during the first 10 years of the child's life and then they decided to invoke the law, four years after the father's death and five years after the mother remarried.