ahirman;366899Interesting way of looking at it. I dont know what hindutva proponents stand is but imagine equal number of Muslims and Hindus males. Each male = 1family and assuming your each women can give some many births = 2 birth per women what do you think will be an average family size for a Muslim vs Hindu family if each muslim man have 4 wives.
Average family size would be the same in both cases that you cited.
Average family size is total number of members divided by total number of families. Whether a woman is impregnated by male A or male B makes no difference when computing averages.
Examples: Case A: Five males and five females and each female having 2 kids. Total 20 humans and five families - average size 4 per family.
Case B: Five males and five females and each female having 2 kids. Three males unmarried. One male married to 3 women and another male married to two women. We have five families with 10 members in family 1, 7 members in family 2 and one member each in families 3, 4, and 5. Total is still five families with 20 members.
Now, one may argue that unmarried male is not a family and I say, what difference does semantics make - the issue is of population and how is it different?
ahirman;366899Your argument that equal number of women and men translating to equal rate is based on the assumption that marriage is between men and women of same age.
No, I made no such assumption. Whether a particular woman is of child bearing age (actual age immaterial) or not is immaterial. The woman regardless of her age can only produce from 0 to x and that does not change whether she marries a Hindu or a Muslim or if she is 60 years of age when she marries.
ahirman;366899 it further expands into a premise that some muslim men will not be able to marry if other muslim men opt for more than one wife.
Yeah. That is a reality of numbers. The fact however is that in India, such polygamy is not as common as some like Modi may want us to believe. In fact there is a shortage of women in India more due to foeticide than due to polygamy.
India's craving for boy babies leads to bride shortage - Telegraph ahirman;366899I dont think thats correct because usually man and woman have 0-10 years age difference during marriage. And for a man who is allowed to keep 4 wives this would further expand into 0-20 years.
So you are suggesting that Muslim men marry women at a younger age than Hindus and thus have longer productivity spans. I disagree. Even Hindus get their daughters married off young, a fairly common practice. For a woman to get married off at a younger age than otherwise would be the prerogative of the family and the woman and not of the polygamist. The financial situation, the education limits the practice of polygamy. The financial situation and education limits the size of the family.
