<p>Is it ever justified? What about the practice of being married to one individual, but dating alternative individuals with the consent of one’s husband or wife? Should this issue be based on personal preference, or should there be government regulations set forth to ensure its limitation? If both individuals are content with it, should it still be viewed as morally wrong?</p>
<p>I don’t hold with it or polyamory for that matter. I know that it’s a controversial opinion but I firmly believe in monogamy. I don’t think it can ever be justified UNLESS both parties are HAPPY with the situation. In that case I would still say its not preferable. In polygynous societies, there is a large percentage of young, poor men with no life/sexual partner and this can lead to violence and mental problems and generally it’s not good for the health of the society in my opinion.</p>
<p>If a man has to marry another woman while he is already married to protect her life and that’s the only way to do it in that society then that society is sick. Many women are exploited with the practise of polygamy, I know some polygamous men and frankly it’s terrible what they are doing to their wives.</p>
<p>If anyone from Utah would like to contribute to this thread, please step forward, NOW.</p>
<p>I know that a lot of people think that polyamory or open relationships are very cool. I think it’s a double standard how polygamy is looked down upon but open relationships are seen as “cool”.</p>
<p>I don’t really see how it’s the governments business. As long as everyone involved is OK with it, I don’t really see a problem with polygamy.</p>
<p>^Isn’t the argument usually that it harms the children of the polygamists?</p>
<p>I went to the library to do homework and even now I’m posting on CC. This might be a new low.</p>
<p>As long as it isn’t like the Sultans, where the wives were second class, I don’t see what’s wrong with it.</p>
<p>^^^ How?</p>
<p>I think it’s almost impossible to be in love with two women/men at the same time and for the first partner to accept the other.</p>
<p>^^I’m really not positive and have done zero research, but I thought that there’s evidence that the children of polygamous families are sometimes neglected. Perhaps I’m 100% wrong though…but I though that’s where lots of the concern lies.</p>
<p>^It’s poor argument, IMO. If a study shows that children of straight couples are more neglected that those of gay couples, is anyone going to call for a ban on straight marriages?</p>
<p>I wasn’t defending the argument–because I agree with you (because I HATE HATE HATE that argument made against gay marriage/same-sex parents adopting), but I was just trying to point out the other side.</p>
<p>Well it’s difficult to concentrate equally on both partners so someone is always left feeling left out. And I personally believe that monogamy, to commit to one person for the rest of your life requires much more strength of character than polygamy.</p>
<p>The problem for children in polygamous families is that the families tend to live in communes and then teenage girls are allegedly forced into marriages with much older men.</p>
<p>Also they usually see one of the wives being abused and/or ill-treating by their “other mother”. Anyway why can’t someone be content with having one wife? What’s the need to have a second, legally sactioned sexual partner?</p>
<p>I watch Big Love!</p>
<p>But, um, anyway, I think polygamy can be and is often innocuous enough that it could be legal, but I don’t think it’s going to be a totally equitable situation in parts of the world where male dominance is traditional. Not presently, and not for a while.</p>
<p>I read this article on polygamy (specifically in FLDS).</p>
<p>Only men deemed godly enough could take on multiple wives to help propagate the community (and thus, help spread their religion). This created a peculiar effect though, really contrary to what I had originally thought. Instead of a male dominated community, it was really matriarchal. Most of the men were taught to be docile in order to be deemed godly, and the women were freer in terms of social expectations.</p>
<p>In FLDS, each woman took care of her own kids, so I wouldn’t say that polygamy lends to child abuse/neglect. But teenage girls were being married to much older men and well over half of them were pregnant. And wives could be “relocated” if they fell out of favor. I feel like everything was objectified in the name of God.</p>
<p>My advice: don’t do it.</p>
<p>People who do are just not worth it, IMO></p>
<p>I wish we could marry 5 wives and make them our slaves in today’s society.</p>