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What if you have an even number of spouses, and in an emergency medical situation your spouses evenly split on the course of action that needs to be taken. That would suck.
In societies where these arrangements happen, the decision goes to the eldest or appointed son.
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Also, how many foreign born spouses is one person allowed to sponsor for immigration visas?
If a military member married 20 women, do they all get base housing?
Details my friend, will need to be worked out somehow
Many gays support or are OK with polygamy. Just a fact.
I have no problem whatsoever with private polygamous associations. I just don't see it as feasible to accommodate such arrangements within a marriage law that functions to create joint legal and financial entities between two parties that confers a collection of joint rights and responsibilities to those two people. It just doesn't make sense for groups of people of any size.
This hasn't gone over anywhere because you aren't able to throw it that far.
We all know and understand the psychological and genetic implications of an incestuous relationships.
The question is--should YOU and the State have an active role in outlawing a relationship between two consenting adults simply because YOU don't like or approve of the relationship? If you support the 'right' for gays to be legally married--then you should also be in favor of ANY two conesenting adults based on that very same principle.
No.
Two consenting family members have the ability to reproduce and the resulting human becomes a burden to society and the family. The offspring is now living with a serious handicap through no fault of his own.
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It happens all the time in business. Contracts are not just between two people you know. And those women would share the rights and responsibilities. Often the estate is sold and divided equally if he passes.
Not really. I've never seen a contract that grants equal executing rights to multiple parties.
We're not talking about the estate. We're discussing the implications of the living contract between two people and the government (benefits, healthcare, finances, etc...). It would be impossible and ridiculous to allow a contract with multiple spouses.
Not really. I've never seen a contract that grants equal executing rights to multiple parties.
Wills are famous examples.
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We're not talking about the estate. We're discussing the implications of the living contract between two people and the government (benefits, healthcare, finances, etc...). It would be impossible and ridiculous to allow a contract with multiple spouses.
Benefits and Finances will be fairly easy. Healthcare can be messy if it's the man whose sick. Otherwise the man makes the decision for each wife without the input of the other wives.
Why are we only talking one man and multiple wives? Why not one woman and multiple husbands? Sheesh, this thread just keeps discriminating.
You should read Robert Heinlein on marriage. With multiples in the marriage, there should be a marriage contract that lays out all powers and expectations.
Benefits and Finances will be fairly easy. Healthcare can be messy if it's the man whose sick. Otherwise the man makes the decision for each wife without the input of the other wives.
Wills aren't a good example or famous. How many wills have you seen that grant equal execution rights to two separate parties? Most of the time the executor is a lawyer.
You seem to be focusing on death examples. Why? There's a whole lifetime that needs to be dealt with first.
Should a person who's married to multiple people be allowed to claim them on their health insurance? Is the government going to change their laws and force companies to absorb extra costs with each additional spouse a person marries?
So does each wife get equal powers to sign binding documents of the marriage? Who get's to be the caretaker of the children? Can the wife of the man discipline the child that's not hers? Why not? They're married, and legally, all of the children are part of her marriage. Or is this the old world where women are concubines and we restrict their rights in polygamous marriages.
It's really reaching to push for polygamy when discussing gay marriage. They are not even close to the same thing.
So does each wife get equal powers to sign binding documents of the marriage? Who get's to be the caretaker of the children? Can the wife of the man discipline the child that's not hers? Why not? They're married, and legally, all of the children are part of her marriage. Or is this the old world where women are concubines and we restrict their rights in polygamous marriages.
It's really reaching to push for polygamy when discussing gay marriage. They are not even close to the same thing.
Each wife is only entitled to the children she bore, not the other children bore by the other wives. That's how these things work. In effect, the man has multiple mini families he comes and in and out of. Everything follows accordingly.
The only society where this occurs are Tibetan Monks. I forgot why (maybe shortage of women) but anyways that's probably why they're so peaceful.
My guess is that due to the Monks relative isolation in the Himalaya plateau (until very recently) they could get away with it. In general, a polyandrous society gets conquered by a polygamous one (for their women).
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