Polygamy
noun
The practice or custom of being married to more than one person at the same time.
Polygamy is customary in some cultures but illegal in many countries.
Often appears as...
- practice polygamy
- polygamy law
noun
The state or condition of having more than one spouse simultaneously.
Despite the pros and cons, polygamy is still practiced in some parts of the world.
Often appears as...
- polygamy practice
- illegal polygamy
noun
In zoology, a pattern of mating in which an animal has more than one mate.
The lion, unlike other cats, is social and have a polygamy mating system.
Often appears as...
- polygamy in animals
- animal polygamy
noun
The practice or custom of being married to more than one person at the same time.
Polygamy is customary in some cultures but illegal in many countries.
Often appears as...
- practice polygamy
- polygamy law
noun
The state or condition of having more than one spouse simultaneously.
Despite the pros and cons, polygamy is still practiced in some parts of the world.
Often appears as...
- polygamy practice
- illegal polygamy
noun
In zoology, a pattern of mating in which an animal has more than one mate.
The lion, unlike other cats, is social and have a polygamy mating system.
Often appears as...
- polygamy in animals
- animal polygamy
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Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be aware that discussing polygamy can be sensitive due to cultural and legal differences.
Polygamy is a complex issue, with cultural significance in many societies.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Implications
Understand that polygamy is illegal in many places and heavily regulated where it is permitted.
She researched the legal status of polygamy for her sociology paper.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Polyamory
Don't confuse polygamy with polyamory, which is about multiple romantic relationships, not marriage.
Polygamy involves marriage, while polyamory may not.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be aware that discussing polygamy can be sensitive due to cultural and legal differences.
Polygamy is a complex issue, with cultural significance in many societies.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Implications
Understand that polygamy is illegal in many places and heavily regulated where it is permitted.
She researched the legal status of polygamy for her sociology paper.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Polyamory
Don't confuse polygamy with polyamory, which is about multiple romantic relationships, not marriage.
Polygamy involves marriage, while polyamory may not.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be aware that discussing polygamy can be sensitive due to cultural and legal differences.
Polygamy is a complex issue, with cultural significance in many societies.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Implications
Understand that polygamy is illegal in many places and heavily regulated where it is permitted.
She researched the legal status of polygamy for her sociology paper.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Polyamory
Don't confuse polygamy with polyamory, which is about multiple romantic relationships, not marriage.
Polygamy involves marriage, while polyamory may not.
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Video examples
Elizabeth Pisani: Sex,...
And they are heterosexuals who come from countries that have traditions of polygamy and relatively high levels of female autonomy, and almost all of those countries are in east or southern Africa. And that is reflected in the epidemic that we have today. You can see these horrifying figures from Africa.
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The life, legacy &...
He cultivated a movement for women’s liberation, outlawing forced marriages, polygamy and genital mutilation. He was the first African leader to appoint women to key political positions and actively recruit them to the military.
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The Man with Three Wives...
woman's main role is to serve her husband and Islam's tolerance of polygamy the practice of taking more than one spouse at the same time is in line with many African traditions chugga
Video examples
Elizabeth Pisani: Sex,...
And they are heterosexuals who come from countries that have traditions of polygamy and relatively high levels of female autonomy, and almost all of those countries are in east or southern Africa. And that is reflected in the epidemic that we have today. You can see these horrifying figures from Africa.
Video examples
The life, legacy &...
He cultivated a movement for women’s liberation, outlawing forced marriages, polygamy and genital mutilation. He was the first African leader to appoint women to key political positions and actively recruit them to the military.
Video examples
The Man with Three Wives...
woman's main role is to serve her husband and Islam's tolerance of polygamy the practice of taking more than one spouse at the same time is in line with many African traditions chugga
Example 1 of 3
Quote examples
Dennis Prager
American Journalist
Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.
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David Josiah Brewer
American Judge
It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil.
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Jeanne Tripplehorn
American Actress
The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.
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Ramzan Kadyrov
Chechen Politician
Polygamy is needed to prevent a man from taking up a lover, which can cause health issues and rifts in the family and would lead him to live a lie, constantly deceiving his wife and children.
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Molly Ivins
American Journalist
Those who imagine polygamy to be handy cover for promiscuity are apparently off the mark. If polygamists share one quality, it is that, polygamy aside, they are extraordinarily strait-laced.
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Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian Author
It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.
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Scott Anderson
American Journalist
So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
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Marine Le Pen
French Politician
We are very, very far from recognising polygamy in our country, thank God.
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Elbert Hubbard
American Writer
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
Quote examples
Dennis Prager
American Journalist
Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.
Quote examples
David Josiah Brewer
American Judge
It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil.
Quote examples
Jeanne Tripplehorn
American Actress
The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.
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Ramzan Kadyrov
Chechen Politician
Polygamy is needed to prevent a man from taking up a lover, which can cause health issues and rifts in the family and would lead him to live a lie, constantly deceiving his wife and children.
Quote examples
Molly Ivins
American Journalist
Those who imagine polygamy to be handy cover for promiscuity are apparently off the mark. If polygamists share one quality, it is that, polygamy aside, they are extraordinarily strait-laced.
Quote examples
Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian Author
It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.
Quote examples
Scott Anderson
American Journalist
So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.
Quote examples
Abraham Lincoln
American President
If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
Quote examples
Marine Le Pen
French Politician
We are very, very far from recognising polygamy in our country, thank God.
Quote examples
Elbert Hubbard
American Writer
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
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