A Titillating Story…….
Wet nurse: “We’ve got laws for problems that we create ourselves!”
Only in the land of the Mo, sand and oil, could this be an actual problem. Children must be keenly aware whose nipple was in their mouth, because Saudi law mandates that a wet nurse, nor her spouse can marry any of the children she breastfeeds. Which means in a more than likely scenario, the husband of a wetnurse cannot take for a 2nd, 3rd or 4th wife, a female his wife breastfed as a child. KGS
Make sure your wife is not your sister!
MADINAH: Islamic law prohibits marriage with one’s wet nurse (for men), her husband (for women), her biological children and any nonbiological children she breast-fed. All such individuals are described as the person’s “mahram.”
Since there is no official system of documenting the names and identities of children who have been breast-fed by a woman, some young men and women sometimes end up accidentally marrying someone suckled by their own wet nurse. This can cause difficulties when couples find out later in life. If they have children, then things can be an even bigger problem.
“We were married for seven years before we discovered we were brothers and sisters. My mother-in-law had breast-fed me,” said Hayat, a schoolteacher from Madinah. “We were lucky as we had no children,” she said, adding that she and her ex-husband only learned that she had been nursed by his mother when an old family friend visited her home.
“She was astonished to find we were married. She reminded my mother that when she had had puerperal fever after giving birth to me, my former mother-in-law breast-fed me and that my marriage to her son was thus forbidden,” she said.
Hayat and her husband divorced and remarried, subsequently becoming parents with their new spouses. Hayat said she does not regret separating, as she did not really love her ex-husband in the way one loves their spouse. More here.
