SAEDNEWS: Marriage plays a fundamental role in maintaining morals and civilization, but polygamy and multiple marriages have been common in various societies for centuries.
According to SAEDNEWS, many elderly people, after the death of their spouse, refrain from marrying again due to judgments, opinions, and the reactions of those around them, choosing to spend their old age alone. However, this is not always the case. The story of multiple marriages and polygamy exists not only in Iran but in many countries around the world. In this section, we share the story of an elderly man who has been married eight times and experienced love, and is now planning his ninth marriage with a young woman.
You might think that polygamy only exists in our country, but it is important to know that in every part of the world, there are men with multiple wives. For many young men, living with one wife and meeting their emotional, psychological, and material needs is difficult, but there are men who, as they age, choose to marry and have multiple wives. One of the stories of polygamy involves Ron Shepard, a man whose pictures with his ninth wife were shared on social media, sparking reactions.
Ron Shepard, a 68-year-old British man who has been married eight times, took the surprising step of proposing to a young Filipino woman to make his ninth marriage official.
In December of last year, this elderly British man met a 26-year-old Filipino woman while on holiday and proposed to her. She worked in telecommunications and accepted his proposal, becoming Ron Shepard’s ninth wife.
Ron Shepard is in the process of arranging a divorce from his previous wife in order to legally register his ninth marriage, as she appears to be preventing the marriage. The result of Ron Shepard’s marriage to the Filipino woman is a son who is now seven months old.
Reading the story of men marrying young women raises the question: what reasons would cause a young girl to marry an older man? A man who could be her father or even her grandfather.
