Talk:Widow inheritance

removeal of connection to HIV
The following has recently been removed:
 * As it is a mechanism for the transmission of HIV within a given social community, women are increasingly challenging this custom as an abuse of their human rights

As this had been fact-tagged for the best part of a year, I won't revert its removal, but it is prima facie likely and as such I put it here, hoping a future editor will find a source and re-include it. BrainyBabe (talk) 19:48, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Serious re-editing on the whole "Africa" section
The standing "Africa" entry essentially detailed how African widows are often impoverished by a lack of societal provision for their basic needs, without specific reference to widow inheritance as a cultural custom.

I fixed the dead link reference... then read it.

The first sentence is not from this reference at all.

The citation for the rest only makes vague reference to widow inheritance as a solution sometime used, so I tried to reflect that.

I've removed Ghana where "widow inheritance means that the inheriting widow and her children are deprived of any fertile lands that they previously farmed. Apparently these widows are often not well taken care of. Over 70% of participants in a 1998 workshop in Ghana identified the practice of widow inheritance as a major obstacle to household food security." As used here the term "widow inheritance" seems to simply mean "what a widow inherits", and the further text makes no mention of marriage. The terms are just confused here. Lamerc (talk) 20:40, 22 June 2019 (UTC)