Editing Polygyny (section)

==== Malawi ====
While polygynous marriages are not legally recognized under the civil marriage laws of Malawi, customary law affords a generous amount of benefits to polygynous unions, ranging from inheritance rights to child custody.<ref name="sigi">{{Cite news|title=Figures 18 and 2.10. Social institutions and gender index (SIGI)|doi = 10.1787/888933163273}}</ref> It has been estimated that nearly one in five women in Malawi live in polygynous relationships.<ref name="sigi" />

Efforts to abolish the practice and de facto recognition of polygyny have been widely apparent throughout the recent years in Malawi; led mainly by anti-AIDS organizations and feminist groups. An effort led in 2008 to outlaw polygyny in the country was fiercely opposed by Islamic religious leaders, citing the practice as a cultural, religious and pragmatic reality of the nation.<ref>{{Citation|last=Lamloum|first=Olfa|title=Islamonline. Jeux et enjeux d'un média " post-islamiste " déterritorialisé|date=2010|work=Médias et islamisme|pages=45–62|publisher=Presses de l'Ifpo|isbn=978-2-35159-172-7|doi=10.4000/books.ifpo.1369}}</ref>