Legalize polygamy?

[nonconformist]

Legalise it, why not?

 

[Yom]

Seeing as the possible problems with too small a gene pool, and the myriad legal problems that would arise, I'm not sure. I definitely wouldn't engage in it, though.

 

[ummmm........]

Yeah, but they Y chromosome is dying out anyway.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Of course it should be legal! Enough of this cultural hegemony.

Note: I hate to be a smartass, but polygamy isn't the opposite of polyandry. PolyGYNY is. Polygamy refers to any sort of multiple partner relationship. Polygyny is one man/multiple women, while polyandry is one woman/multiple men.

 

[Narz]

Anyone should be able to marry anyone else. It is a personal not a political issue. The traditional family model is obsolete and failing at a tremendous rate (what is the stat now, 60% of marriages end in divorce?). People have the right to have options!

 

[Narz]

By the way, if I was mad (insane) enough to get married at all I would definitely marry three or more women. I believe women would be happier living with companions rather than alone with just one man (albeit a fantastic man) who at times will neglect them to play computer games and browse internet forums.

 

[Narz]

Yeah, but they Y chromosome is dying out anyway.

What do you base that on? Sadly, last I checked the number of men seemed to coorespond with the number of women pretty evenly.

 

[ummmm........]

what is the stat now, 60% of marriages end in divorce

I read the other 40% end in death. It's lose-lose.

 

[Narz]

I read the other 40% end in death. It's lose-lose.

Yeah, well at least married people get to live longer. Of course, I wonder if people could have multiple partners if they would live even longer.

I mean, when one spouse dies, the odds are high that the other will soon follow. But if you had more than one then at least you'd still have someone in your life. I'd be willing to bet that if the husband (in a Polyginious marriage) died, the three of four widows would be happy to have each other, and happy that they lived such a close and intimate life.

One man/one woman is lonely. And the majority of people are not satisfied with it. That's a fact (well the later point is anyway, statistically).

 

[Sark6354201]

By the way, if I was mad (insane) enough to get married at all I would definitely marry three or more women. I believe women would be happier living with companions rather than alone with just one man (albeit a fantastic man) who at times will neglect them to play computer games and browse internet forums.

Do you know ANYTHING about relationships?

 

[YNCS]

I think legalising polygamy would render marriage a useless declaration, both in the eyes of society and in the eyes of the law. What would be the point in marrying more than once? Or at all?

Polygamous marriages are an affront to Christians everywhere. I am just thankful that the Church of England's founder, Henry VIII, and his wife Catherine of Aragon, and his wife Anne Boleyn, and his wife Jane Seymour, and his wife Anne of Cleves, and his wife Katherine Howard, and his wife Catherine Parr are no longer here to suffer through this assault on traditional Christian marriages.

 

[Narz]

Do you know ANYTHING about relationships?

Yes. From personal experience and from reading.

Polygamous societies have less domestic violence, less "affairs", less of pretty much all domestic distirbances. Many seem to think that martial problems mostly stem from "human nature" problems such as jealousy. But IMO they mostly stem from the incorrect cultural assumption that one person can get 100% of their sexual and intimacy needs met by one other person. Judging by the statistics on marriage, this assumption has been proven false.

Do share Sarky, share your personal wisdom on human relationships?

 

[Sark6354201]

Yes. From personal experience and from reading.

Polygamous societies have less domestic violence, less "affairs", less of pretty much all domestic distirbances. Many seem to think that martial problems mostly stem from "human nature" problems such as jealousy. But IMO they mostly stem from the incorrect cultural assumption that one person can get 100% of their sexual and intimacy needs met by one other person. Judging by the statistics on marriage, this assumption has been proven false.

Do share Sarky, share your personal wisdom on human relationships?

Not worth the argument, since you're obviously quite convinced of your stance, however wrong it may be.

 

[ummmm........]

Yeah, well at least married people get to live longer. Of course, I wonder if people could have multiple partners if they would live even longer.

I mean, when one spouse dies, the odds are high that the other will soon follow. But if you had more than one then at least you'd still have someone in your life. I'd be willing to bet that if the husband (in a Polyginious marriage) died, the three of four widows would be happy to have each other, and happy that they lived such a close and intimate life.

One man/one woman is lonely. And the majority of people are not satisfied with it. That's a fact (well the later point is anyway, statistically).

I've always wondered why married people live longer. I think maybe it's just because when married people have a heart attack/stroke/fall and break their hip, there's somebody there to call the ambulance.

When last I looked (10 years ago), there wasn't really any reasearch on the subject.

 

[Evie]

If three or more adults wants to form the basis of a family unit, all of them together, then what place does the government have stopping them?

 

[ummmm........]

What do you base that on? Sadly, last I checked the number of men seemed to coorespond with the number of women pretty evenly.

Oops, missed this earlier. Yeah, males outnumber females at birth, and females outnumber males in old age, but in the middle it's pretty even.

What I was referring to is an apparent lack of diversity in the y-chromosome relative to the x. And that's just based on some thing I heard on NPR, not years of personal research or anything.

 

[Narz]

Oops, missed this earlier. Yeah, males outnumber females at birth, and females outnumber males in old age, but in the middle it's pretty even.

What I was referring to is an apparent lack of diversity in the y-chromosome relative to the x. And that's just based on some thing I heard on NPR, not years of personal research or anything.

That sounds interesting. So basically there is more genetic diversity among females than males? Well, I don't mind if "most" males become obsolete, as long as a few of us are still needed. Frankly, I think a world with twice (or thrice) as many woman as male would be quite a fine place (and not just for obvious reasons either), I think a world with many times more women would be a much more peaceful place. Perhaps inventiveness and progress would decline slightly at first but over all I think the quality of life would increase.

 

[cgannon64]

I think this thread has come up with at least 30 ideas, so far, of how to destroy the institution of marriage.

 

[Japanrocks12]

I just can't see polygamy in a society. If one person is married to more than one person of the opposite sex, then obviously one person is the center of his/her devotion. Violence among the members of the same sex ensues, and so do deaths.

The second thing: How should property be inherited should the man/woman die? Obviously the favorite gets most of his/her property. And then more violence over that...

 

[GenMarshall]

Polygamy is immoral and should be illegal in the United States.