What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding the ongoing dispute between a father and his children concerning the conditions of the father's divorce from his second wife and the bringing of his children from her to live with them, knowing that there is a difference in parenting styles between the two families?
A father is permitted to keep his second wife or divorce her, and his children have no right to object to him or abandon him. If he divorces her, the mother has a greater right to the custody of children under seven years of age, unless she remarries. After the age of seven, the child is given a choice. Custody transfers to the father if the mother's immorality negatively impacts the children's upbringing. If the father wishes to house his children from the second wife with the first wife, the children have no right to object. As for the wife, she has the right to independent housing, and she may refuse to share it with the husband's children unless the dwelling provides a separate entrance and independent facilities.
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