The Female Solution - Naimah Latif
March 21st, 2008 by 
Khanverse
New Book The Female Solution - Naimah Latif
Proposes Legalizing Polygyny In America
to Address Crises of Fatherless Homes
“It is my belief that this publication makes a strong case for finding ways to strengthen dual parent child-rearing as a way of promoting strong family development.”
Danny K. Davis, Member of Congress, Illinois 7th District
The problems of crime, violence and poverty are exacerbated by the absence of fathers in the home. This epidemic has been addressed by such national figures as Bill Cosby, Tavis Smiley, and Dr. Cornell West, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Minister Louis Farrakhan. According to current statistics, ninety percent of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes; eighty-five percent of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in fatherless homes; eighty-five percent of all children with behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes; and eighty-two percent of teenage girls who get pregnant come from fatherless homes.
To combat this crisis, a new book The Female Solution proposes that legislators enact a small change in the marriage laws to enable a man, with the signed consent of his wife on the marriage license, to legally marry additional wives. Copies of the book have been sent to members of the Congressional Black Caucus and members of Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families. Both Presidential Candidates Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama are members of the Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families.
Author Naimah Latif will discuss this book and the issues it raises in a two part series on The Media Connection TV show. Part one will air Monday, March 17 at 5 p.m. and Tuesday, March 18, at 12:00 noon. Part two will air Monday, March 24 at 5 p.m. and Tuesday, March 25 at 12:00 noon. The program airs on Cable TV channel 19 in Chicago.
This proposed legislation is strongly pro-family. It gives single women, who vastly outnumber single men, more options for marriage. It addresses the epidemic of fatherlessness by allowing responsible men to become husbands and fathers and provide women and children the emotional and financial support they need.
“We have a problem. And we can only solve it together… The purpose of a family is to provide a safe, secure, loving environment in order to raise healthy, well-adjusted children,” states Naimah Latif. Current trends suggest that the condition of fatherlessness will not change unless drastic steps are taken. “These current wars are drastically depleting the numbers of young men, creating many widows and orphans and condemning countless numbers of young women to either remaining single for the rest of their lives or committing adultery. This is cruel. We must enact a more humane marriage law to enable every woman who desires a husband to get married.”
The practice known as polygyny (marriage of a man to more than one woman) is undoubtedly a controversial issue. Legislators must consider the fact that many immigrants who have come to America are from African and Asian countries where polygyny is already legally practiced; some men have already immigrated to the U.S. with more than one wife. According to the First Amendment guarantee of Freedom of Religion, those whose religious faiths allow polygyny should have the legal right to practice it in America. This would include Mormons, Muslims, African Hebrews, Yorubas and others, the author points out.
“This is the female solution to single parenthood,” she asserts. “Strong, decent, responsible, God-fearing men must prepare themselves to marry more than one wife.”
For more information, call Wanda Carter, publicist, at (773) 420-3645).
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March 21st, 2008 at 6:44 pm
This is an excellent solution and one we have been hoping would be possible for us in our communities. The legalities of this hampers many from practicing this in order to fix the problem of single moms and dadless kids. We need to do something proactive and this solution simply proves that there are solutions that people have had for centuries about this problem that can be useful today.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:28 am
First of all, the world is in a mess because women have depended on men to start with. Now she is powerless for the most part and the world is on the brink of destruction. So I do not believe fatherless homes is the cause of the childrens plight, at least not so in this country, USA.
The Female Solution seems to be supporting the need for women to continue dependance on men, we’ll just give a man more women to take care of legally ( or not).
I say women should take back her power! Let women get together and make homes with sisters with out a man to depend on. Why should they depend on a husband when they can do just as well on thier own if not better? Let women depend on women! Let women own the property! Let women decide what man will father a child without having to be chained to the man! Let men scramble to be in a group that is respected and allowed to be roll models for the youngsters! Let no man claim fathership so as to prevent him from taking back the power that he has abused over the centuries! Giving man father hood is insain. It is the woman who bears the genetic line. That is scientific fact!
I say men should claim thier rightful place in society of every sort and stop trying to control women and her reproductive power as the mother of life!! Then men will not have time or will to make war any more! They will have no need for it if they do not have the illusion that they are making off spring of themselves or have to gain more land or control his neighbors wealth. Women will be in control of all the wealth! He will use his strenth and will to support communities and work and all things that need the male energy. And leave the life making where it belongs, in the control of women!
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Sister,
have you read the book?
If not, I’d humbly request you do so, because all your concerns are elaborately addressed in the proper context.
Your appeal to sacred feminist ideals doesn’t make sense when one looks at nature. It takes two parents to raise a family. Why use men at all to have a child if men are not required in raising the child? What about the need of a male influence to temper the males once they reach the adolescent phase of aggression and sexual appetite?
Men and women are complimentary. Both are to blame for fatherless homes. If a woman chooses to be promiscuous and mate with men who are not worthy of reproduction, the purpose of sex, in the first place, she shouldn’t be shocked when those same men bounce when the baby comes. Similarly a boy need a father figure who respects women and needs to see the HEALTHY dynamics between his parents in order for him to grow into an adult who respects women and takes responsibility for his actions.
As for “life-making”, women can’t make a baby without a man and vice versa. And certainly neither parent can show the child how to be the opposite gender so neither can claim supremacy in this territory.
Again, please READ the book.
Peace & Blessings
-Khanverse
May 25th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
knanyahu:
In 2000, you explained the math in Daniel 9:24-27. It was in a chat room. I just want to thank you for that because it has benefitted me and others. I have more questions if you would please email.
Dack
November 6th, 2008 at 5:29 am
I like your office raises)
November 6th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
don’t know what that means but thank you!