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Just another example of the government trying to legislate moraility. What makes the government think it has the right to intervene with marriage? Marriage is between people, not between people and the government.
People instantly think of those 13 year old girls, wearing frontier clothing, married to 60 year old perverts.
However, this isn't the real polygamy that I've seen. I have a friend, who is Muslim, and he has two wives and lives in Fort Walton Beach. They are perfectly happy, and couldn't see living any other way.
I've seriously thought about following that type of lifestyle, just for the financial benefits alone would be worth it.
However, its hard to find a woman willing to do that, if its not religiously oriented.
It no longer really matters whether a domestic relationship is certified by a formal marriage or not. So a man can live with multiple partners in wife-like relationships (it's called shacking up) and there is nothing anybody can do about it. So the question is really moot. I don't think, within the mainstream American culture, there are very many households that are doing that, but I don't look in through the windows at other people's business, so what do I know?
I don't see anything wrong with formalizing it into a lawful domestic partnership, however I think there ought to be a divorce law provision that any wife who sours on the idea can walk out with a minimum of judicial paperwork.
What about women having several husbands??? I am sure that " just for the financial benefits alone would be worth it" ( more!!) ...
However, I think that would be hard to find men willing to do that... religious or not lol
I am sure that many women would seriously think about following that type of lifestyle! Polyandry! That's it!!!
I saw a family on P&T BS, who were two men, and two women. They were all together, and swapped up partners whenever they felt like it.
They had 5 children. Two were doctors, One was a high profile lawyer, and the other two were in engineering.
Sounds like a successful family to me, I'd be down with it, if I found the right family. You'd have to really get along with the men, and the women in there.
That's not polygamy. That's group marriage...
I wonder about jealousy and rivalry feelings in such relationships.
Polyamory (from Greek πολυ [poly, meaning many or several] and Latin amor [love]) is the practice, desire, or acceptance of having more than one intimate relationship at a time with the knowledge and consent of everyone involved.
Close enough.
I see the terms as interchangeable. I personally wouldn't be interested in a relationship with one woman, and multiple other men, but I wouldn't stand in the way of someone else doing that either.
The financial benefits of polygyny to me, entails that more than one spouse can work, while one spouse or more is pregnant.
You can't get more than one pregnancy at a time with polyandry.
It was practiced for 10's of thousands of years, and is still practiced today.
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