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2017-01-21 Africa Horn

UN alarm that most of Al Shabab's force in Somalia are kids

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Posted by Steve White 2017-01-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: al-Shabaab

#1 when your religion tells you to have multiple wives, breed to maximum carrying capacity and never use contraception you end up with 9 kids per woman, 4 wives that's around 36 kids per male

so with all those spare kids, too many mouths to feed, they don't really care if they lose some to war

life is cheap

limit them to 2 kids per family and they won't be so blase about letting the child soldiers fight

Posted by anon1 2017-01-21 03:41|| 2017-01-21 03:41|| Front Page Top

#2 The CIA World Factbook has Somalia down to below 6 children per woman despite only a 14% use of contraception, but the point still holds. Under current conditions the men mostly can't afford multiple wives, as is the case even in Saudi Arabia. When Mr. Wife was starting up the factory in Egypt, the men pointed out proudly the one man among them who had a second wife. He was sleeping in a corner, worn out from his husbandly exertions, and they all covered for him. Mr.
Wife had no stories about multiple wives among the people he dealt with in Saudi Arabia.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-01-21 15:57|| 2017-01-21 15:57|| Front Page Top

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