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from notes archived at Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i |
Category: | Marriage | Topic: | Dissolution(1) | Consultant: | ||
If a young wife committed adultery before she had come to live with the man whom she had been married to in their childhood, the members of the boy's family would murder one of her family. Adultery was usually punished by killing the male offender. The abused husband and his family took the law into their own hands. | ||||||
Category: | Marriage | Topic: | Dissolution(2) | Consultant: | Rosarima | |
In the old days if a man saw that the girl he married did not seem happy and wandered about and did not attend to him, he knew she did not like him. Another man might come to him shortly after they were married and ask if he could have his wife. This was usually prearranged with the girl who was in love with this second individual. If she told her husband that she was in love with this man, the husband allowed them to go away to live together. But people considered the first man her real husband for they had had the marriage ceremony and he had taken her virginity. |
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Category: | Marriage | Topic: | Dissolution(3) | Consultant: | ||
Divorce was usually secured by one party requesting the other for permission to leave and to live with one whom he or she loved. This was usually accompanied by a koua and was more or less done in the spirit of faksoro, or begging. Divorce seems to have been easy and with little or no complaint from the losing party. Request for relief and a koua was the manner in which a young man would break the marriage made with a girl when they both were very young. |
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