do you support polygamy?

Nigeria
January 12, 2007 11:33am CST
Absolute no.
3 responses
• United States
13 Jan 07
No because I don't think it's very natural. Maybe it's just because I've grown up thinking polygamy as "wierd."
@aiguy01 (588)
• United States
12 Jan 07
I think as long as all parties in the relationship are not being pressured into it by their families or anyone else then it should be left up to the individuals. People marry for different reasons and have to abide by different rules according to the customs of the country and religion they are in. What happens when a person comes from a country where multiple wives are legal. When he crosses our border are they no longer his wives? What about a person who goes out of the US to marry a second wife and then brings her home. Are they still married?
@zal3x89 (280)
• Romania
12 Jan 07
The term polygamy (many marriages in late Greek) is used in related ways in social anthropology and sociobiology and sociology. Polygamy can be most succinctly defined as a "form of marriage in which a person has more than one spouse." In social anthropology, polygamy is the practice of marriage to more than one spouse simultaneously. Historically, polygamy has been practiced as polygyny (one man having more than one wife), or as polyandry (one woman having more than one husband), or, less commonly as "polygamy" (having many wives and many husbands at one time). (See "Forms of Polygamy" below.) In contrast monogamy is the practice each person having only one spouse at a time. Like monogamy, the term is often used in a de facto sense, applying regardless of whether the relationships are recognized by the state (see marriage for a discussion on the extent to which states can and do recognize potentially and actually polygamous forms as valid). In sociobiology, polygamy is used in a broad sense to mean any form of multiple mating. In a narrower sense, used by zoologists, polygamy includes a pair bond, perhaps temporary.