What is polygamy and what are its effects?

Answer 1

Polygamy can be advantageous to a child's education, because they have more parents at home that can help them with homework. Polygamists' children can attend public or private schools, or be home schooled, so their education really does not differ from that of any other child.

Answer 2

The main effect of polygamy is the creation of a class of men who can't find wives. There are roughly equal numbers of men and women in the world. Every time a man takes 4 wives, 3 other men can't find one. In places where polygamy is comman, those numbers can quickly add up to 15-20 percent of the population.

Polygamy is most common is places where women don't have civil rights. When women can get an education, hold a job, own property and vote, they don't choose to go into polygamy.

Economies of polygamous countries are effected negatively when there are a lot of men without wives and families and when women are restricted in how they can contribute to the economy.

Polygamy is part of the reason the countries that allow it are usually poor. The only ones with real money are those who have oil revenue from the free democratic countries that don't allow polygamy.

Answer 3

* Rich men who are able to support large families can do so and thereby diversify their genetic variability.

* Many women can benefit from the financial success of one man. * Many children can benefit from the genetic superiority of the elite father. * Inferior, incompetent, or defective men don't get to reproduce.

Answer 4

Polygamy means marrying more than one spouse. Usually it is one man with two or more wives.

The most negative effect of polygamy, at least in theory, is that there are men that will not be able to get married because all the women are already taken. Also, polygamy makes things such as taxes, health insurance, housing, and family reunions more complicated.

Answer 5

When Mormonism was first created, they practiced polygamy. This practice was dropped soon after, and Mormons no longer practice or support this belief.

Answer 6

The practice of polygamy by Mormons in the 1800's caused fewer single women among Mormons.