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Would it affect your dignity to share a committed wife with a couple of other husbands? It's not a problem in some Himalayan cultures, where two or three brothers do just that. Whatever choice my wife and I made would not do anything to raise your taxes. What I put out there was people should have the right to do what they want as long as children are protected and no one is getting hurt. Obviously we need to have laws but stay out of our bedrooms and our personal choices.
Cool. So you understand the "dignity" issue, then? Or you don't have a dignity issue, yourself, with sharing your wife with other guys?
Would it help to raise single parent families out of poverty by allowing them to enter into a legally recognized plural marraige? What if the 30% of inner city males who do the right thing and are a father to their children be allowed to marry at least one other single female with children? Right now there are about 70% of those single women with no father for their kids on all kinds of Gov benefits. If they lived with and created an expanded family then they could live under one roof which saves money. Also one of the wives could stay home with the kids while the other one went to school and/or got a job. The kids would not be coming home to an empty unsupervised house.
What do you mean by "legally recognized"? What would that entail?
And what's stopping these people from living this way now?
A legal recoginized marraige the same as a single man and women can now have. What is stopping them is it`s illegal by mans law. So is adultry but since the polititions engage it that they will over look it.
A legal recoginized marraige the same as a single man and women can now have. What is stopping them is it`s illegal by mans law. So is adultry but since the polititions engage it that they will over look it.
Marriage should be abolished as a state recognized institution.
A legal recoginized marraige the same as a single man and women can now have.
But what do you mean by this? Civil marriage law provides joint legal rights to couples. In general, they don't make sense in the context of one person or indiscriminately sized groups of people. So, specifically, what would legalized plural marriages like what you're describing look like and entail?
Perhaps you could describe how the legal rights of a spouse to make emergency medical decisions would work. What happens if I'm unconscious and a medical decision needs to be made immediately but 2 wives want one course of action whereas my other 2 wives want a different course of action?
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What is stopping them is it`s illegal by mans law.
Not really. Sure, some states do have private association polygamy and bigamy laws on the books, but they're unenforceable (Utah for instance just ruled its version of such laws unconstitutional).
Given the current rate of unemployment, underemployment, and wage stagnation, a single mom would require two guys to support her. That's the more practical type of plural marriage.
Actually there's some truth to that. Especially with the single moms. The sperm donor husband tends to be a deadbeat loser. She would need another man or two who might be willing to work and support her.
Polygamy has definitely not worked to lift anyone out of poverty in the Utah desert. It's just another way for women to become welfare queens. One man keeps 12 or 13 women impregnated, girls aren't allowed to finish middle school because some guy wants to buy them and add them to his harem. He doesn't support any of his offspring, the taxpayers do.
Only the very rich could really afford to buy up many women and support them.
Only the very rich could really afford to buy up many women and support them.
This is generally true in Africa, where one measure of a man's wealth is how many households he's able to support. And in traditional Tibetan society, the elite men had more than one wife, whereas the poor farmers had to share a wife between two or more brothers, in order to keep the land from being broken up into parcels too small to be viable farms. So polygyny was for the rich, and polyandry was (and still is) for the poor.
DNA every child on welfare and castrate any baby daddy who has 3 children with 3 different mothers living on welfare. That will make the baby daddies be a little more careful about their birth control.
A vaccine that prevents pregnancy for two years is needed, then make birth control a mandatory condition to receive welfare.
There is already an injection birth control that lasts five years, but I wouldn't suggest forcing people to use it, that is pushing the same ideology that Hitler had.
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Marriage should be abolished as a state recognized institution.
It would make obtaining certain government benefits difficult or having a say in your partner's medical care and other things. If this were not true than many gay people would not be pursing their marriages are recognized by the state.
You are also free to choose whether or not to be in a marriage recognized by the state and that's your choice. Other's are free to choose their method.
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