Casa Dois = House 2
Maybe this isn’t all that different than some places in the states. Isn’t it Utah that has a lot of Mormans?
There could be several reasons why Casa Dois’s are a common thing here. One, and this one’s obviously true, it’s part of the culture. Yes, I would like to believe that a woman could have more than one husband versus the norm you hear about with husband’s having more than one wife, but I’m afraid it’s not like that here. A man may have a wife and family in Mozambique, but because he works for long periods of time in South Africa, he may have another wife and family there. Or this could happen within Mozambique. Some wives even take in the kids of the other wives because schooling may be better with the one wife and that city. They are all one, big, happy family!
One theory I head about Casa Dois’s is that because of the civil war, a lot of me were killed and therefore the ratio of men to women was not equal and Casa Dois’s became the thing.
Either way it happened, it’s part of their culture. It may not be what I grew up believing or what you grew up believing, but to each their own. If it works, it works. It seems to work here just fine. Mormans have a long history of it, too. I think they even all live in one house in the Morman culture sometimes. Nobody can say what is right and what is wrong because nobody truly knows that answer. So, let’s all live in this world together and with what makes us happy that doesn’t affect anybody else in a negative manner. Let’s keep it positive. Let’s live in a world of peace, happiness, and love.
Peace Out,
Mandy the Hippie
PS – I live in Casa 2 at my school! I find it funny!
I think its brilliant... the more wives the more you can divide the "quality time" to the man. I know that if I were to marry a man I would want to have a wife in the family too :)
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