Bisexuals

[idb]

If my husband and I fall on hard times and need assistance, it would be he and I and as many children as we were able to make in 10 years of marriage. If my husband, I and his 4 other wives fall on hard times, you now have 4 times the amount of children needing supported by the state.

As for abuse, polygamy is ripe with abuse in this nation. Child brides, cults, molestation, abandoning boy children. You will find this with polygamy all over the world.

Should there be a mandated maximum family size then?
You know, just in case they fall on hard times.
Maybe the Chinese were onto something.

In fact, maybe marriage should be discouraged, families with only one parent have one less mouth for the state to feed.
One couple marriage is rife with abuse as well, probably more so than polygamy.

Couldn't help the straw man could you?


We, as a society, generally( because there are plently of people who are not ok with helping support other people's families) accept the responsiblity of helping support families down on their luck. A single polygamous family could fill an entire shelter. It's simply, a fact, I'm not a fan of ignoring facts.

What straw man?
If you're so concerned about large families falling back on the state, maybe family sizes should be limited.

My point is that I think this line of argument is weak.
Any proposal can be extrapolated to negative lengths.

 

[PratchettFan]

The arguments against polygamy that I think have valid concerns are, bigger families that would be bigger burdens on society and a greater chance for abuse. As well as the fact that marriage law is set up all over the nation as a 2 party contract, and adding polygamy would mean a total restructuring of the system and may become too complicated and burdensome.

How is a bigger family a greater burden on society?
How does a bigger family have a greater chance for abuse?

If my husband and I fall on hard times and need assistance, it would be he and I and as many children as we were able to make in 10 years of marriage. If my husband, I and his 4 other wives fall on hard times, you now have 4 times the amount of children needing supported by the state.

As for abuse, polygamy is ripe with abuse in this nation. Child brides, cults, molestation, abandoning boy children. You will find this with polygamy all over the world.

As to what you are willing to risk as a family, that is your decision. Would you consider it a good thing if I were to tell you what risks I was willing to allow you to accept? For your own good, of course.

The abuse is due the fact that current law forces these folks into the shadows, leaving the most vulnerable unprotected by law. The problem is not the practice, it is the prohibition making them criminals.

 

[Papawx3]

Bisexuality: If you want to experiment with bi-sexuality, then round up a guy and a girl who are both willing do a threesome with you, then go for it. That will give you some insight into what sex with both is like. You can make up your own mind from there.

Polygamy: I have one wife and she's shown that she's more than capable of spending my money for me. There aren't enough hours in the day for me to work where I would make enough money to support more than one woman in that regard.
Monogamy works just fine for me, thank you very much.

As an aside, do you know why gay men always have so much money? It's because they don't have women to spend it for them!