Esmeralda
Diamond Member
I think such an idea is absolute nonsense. How does marrying a man with several other wives help anyone? If she wants to have children, she can use a sperm bank. Surely she gets little love and emotional support from a man who has several wives. The very idea of sharing your husband with others means shutting down your natural emotions to be a one to one partner with a loving spouse. It's a mentally and emotionally abusive situation.I believe polygamy may be one solution for women who may claim, they can't find any more nice guys.Why it is still illegal? if polygamy is a part of your religion? I'm not talking about compounds with prophets assigning wives to old men, I mean families that are just trying to follow their beliefs, no abuse. Ok I have a new question: If polygamy is illegal, meaning you cannot marry more than one person, then why do families living in the suburbs face arrests and criminal charges for practicing it even though legally the man is only married to 1 woman. Say a man is sleeping with his secretary and she get's pregnant and he has children from his wife and now his secretary, why does he not get arrested?
You must admit that all this legalization of homosexual marriages is to lead to allowing polygamy in the US.
Who cares?
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Polygamy is illegal because it is abusive to women. Period. It should stay illegal. All modern, forward thinking cultures forbid polygamy in the same way they forbid child abuse, bigamy, and other behaviors that subjugate and abuse others.