Is it permissible for a couple to delay childbearing for a period ranging from six months to a year after the marriage contract, with the aim of discovering each other's dispositions and habits? And is it permissible for a woman to seek divorce from her husband if she discovers he is bald after marriage, or for a man to seek divorce from his wife due to her bad breath?
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Procreation is a great objective of marriage and a shared right of both spouses. It is permissible to agree to delay it for a valid reason. The husband's baldness is not a defect that grants the wife the right to annul the marriage. As for bad breath, the majority of scholars do not consider it among the repulsive defects that grant the right to annulment, while some have affirmed that it does.
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