Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Love Topic - If legalized, can polygamy really work?

First off, let me say that this is no way to bash or degrade those that choose the path of polygamy for religious purposes or any other purpose, so be sure to leave out any snarky comments. I am hoping this is can become a true discussion without involving any religious beliefs. I know we all have our views on whether it is morally wrong or not but this is to see if it can physically work for everyone involved.


I heard this on the Steve Harvey radio show this morning. One of his loyal listeners from South Africa had mentioned that their president has 20 kids and 5 wives. So their hot topic was, if it was legalized, can polygamy really work? Later I will share some of the listeners views. They may surprise you. By the way, this stemmed from Steve Harvey making a comment that AA men would not want multiple wives for many reasons. Unfortunately, I missed that part of the show, so I did not get to hear the reasons.

If the US legalized polygamy, do you personally think it can work?

Who has the advantage? Disadvantage? Can the roles be reversed where the woman has multiple husbands? Would this lead to men sticking around and taking care of their multiple wives and children?


Thoughts?

signature
Posted by at

3 comments:

  1. FreeXenonMarch 2, 2010 at 10:00 AM

    It definitely can work, but like any relationship involving humans, it is going to take work, ever more work than with monogamy, since there are even more people involved. The development of relationship skills and conflict resolution will really be necessary. You may want to look to polyamory to get a good feel for plural relationships of the various kinds.

    ReplyDelete
  2. BlogMarkBlogMarch 2, 2010 at 2:17 PM

    Why should the Government be allowed to prevent consenting adults to to marry whomever they want to marry? There is no reason not to allow it other than religious beliefs prevent it.

    ReplyDelete
  3. ElizabethMarch 2, 2010 at 7:33 PM

    The practice has worked and could work again though I would question the motives behind it. If we have a lot of guys getting married to 10 woman for sex related matters, would he necessarly be willing to take care of all 10 woman and all their children the best possibly way he could. Is it even financially feasable? In wester U.S. communties where it is practiced, there are a lot or problems. One such problem is that young boys are being banned from the community because there are not enough girls to share with them. They are being let go from the only place they have ever known without food, shelter, and family. But that being said, if polygamy is legalized on a large scale, the problems could potentially be completely different than those that occur in a fundamentalist polygamist community. It's hard to say.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)