Muslims & 4 wives (wife)

This subject is also interesting. In American TV there is a program. Its name was "My four wives" and now it is "sister wives" :) People just watch it and ejoy it too... The family can explain everything, people find it intereting. While a man can not get on well with one wife, how come a man can get on well with 4 wifes?

Well... Westerns believe that marriage with 4 wives is associated with Islam. Actually it is not. Beacuse officially it was for the first time applied by Mohammad, they believe-know so. But what is the truth? 

It is simple. As we all know lots of wars happened and millions of people died in the past. Soldiers were MEN. Namely soldiers were husbands and brothers. Because of wars the population of men decreased and many women's husband died. Those women needed to be taken care of. Thus, Mohammad allowed marriage until four wifes incase the man can take care of them which means if he has enough food, house to sleep. This was in 640s AD. Since Islam came to Arabia people think it is a religious issue. No, it is a humanitarian issue.

My Russian Language teacher told us that in Russia the population of women is 8 times bigger than
men. It means a man can have 8 women and thus everybody could find a husband-wife-couple whatever you call it... The situation of Europe was same during I-II World Wars. Right after 1945 a rapid increase occured in Europian population because of establishment of UN. Wars stopped and soldiers were back to home...

The fact about Russian population differs a bit. Because of diverse reasons the death rate of men is also higher than women today.

So why today Muslim men still can have more than one wife? Is it still about the disbalance of men -women population?

No, today it is not about population but this application became a cultural issue among poor Arabs and other poor muslims. 

Why an old man (40-45) marries a kid (13-15) girl?

As far as i am concerned, the reasons can be listed as below;

---families are crowded and uneducated because of powerty. When a girl comes to her 13-15 ages, men demand to marry her. A man has to pay a kind of "milking money" or "marriage money" to the girl's family. So this is good for the father to feed his family and if the girl gets married it means one person less for kitchen (if you ask this to them, you will never get a 'yes' to this question). 

---the man who wants to marry (if he has a rich father) can pay big amounts of money...then it means propably he his at his young ages. If the man doesnt have a father or a rich father, it means he has to work hard and save money to be able to pay and find a wife. Thus, it takes long time to save that much money and he comes to his 40-45s. Namely, if you are a poor boy, you can not marry.

---following this situation, when a man comes to his 40s, there is no a girl at 40 years old to marry him. All the girls are already taken.

So, to understand why men have more wives and why old men marry to kids...one should make emphaty...that you are an uneducated poor father/mother, or that you are a poor man who wants to marry but it costs much money...

Why we see 40 years old husbands with 15 years old girls but we dont see 25 years old husband and wife?

The first cases are usually poor cases and incase of a war they have to travel to find a better future and they come to us. The second case, they are relatively rich and they possible have a better future already, they dont travel and we dont see them frequently. Plus, the first case is negative and more interesting. Therefore it stays in mind. The second case is normal to us, doesnt matter how many couples we see, we dont judge.