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My Best Friend Wrecked My Brother's Home
Mali's story part III: Imagine a stranger coming to your house and taking over your bedroom. What would you do?
My name is Mali, and this is my story.
My eldest brother, Jeff, is older than me by seventeen years. Jeff's mother was my father's first wife, and my mother was his fifth. My father had six wives and twenty-two children.
In my culture, men can marry as many wives as they want, and children in this home tend to grow without trust or love. They fight and hate each other, and I believe that translates to ineffective leaders in our country.
How families with many wives and children live
Some adult children from polygamous homes with lucrative estates like to portray their family as working and loving — love of money and family name are the root of all abuse worldwide.
In my experience in a polygamous home, we detest our fathers and stepmothers and rarely trust ourselves or…
