Second Wives Research Paper

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My life started at August 29 1983, in a small village in Ogun State.
Am the second child to my mother and my father’s fourth. My father married his first wife at a young after two years of no children married my mother, ironically his first wife gave birth to my half-sister before my mother had her first son. In my community, it is normal for some people to have two wives because their first wives did not bear children (“early enough”). They marry second wives and some bring them under the same roof with the first wives. In many cases, they just gave the first wife a foretaste of hell. Ordinarily childlessness is very difficult for many women to handle. No matter how much they try to conceal it, you see the agony. Sometimes you meet a cheerful

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