It is Time to Legalize Polygamy
Polygamy is the practice of having more than one spouse at one time and has been considered a controversial, and illicit social topic in the United States, earning attention as a subject in which different opinions are held. Polygamy has two types: polygyny, which means a man has more than one wife, and polyandry, which means a woman has more than one husband (The Oxford American Dictionary). Polygamy was legal over the world until the Roman Empire set up the rules of marriage and allowed only monogamous marriage. In fact, in the United States, the polygamy was acceptable when the Church of Mormon started at least within the church, and Mormons also known as LDS Church, …show more content…
However, by the time America legalizes polygamy, polygamous marriages would become more popular and easier to understand, which will probably promote to the whole world the idea of polygamy. Many people might think that racism and segregation by national origin have vanished from the world. However, sadly, they have not (Chou). Nonetheless, by accepting polygamy and making it legal, (which will help spreading it), people from different ethnicities might have a wife or a husband in common, and therefore, it would decrease racism in the society. For example, a man could have multiple spouses from different countries, or different races at the same time. While they are living together by their choice and not because of lack, they would live as conventionally as the sun rises-eat together, watch TV together, and even discuss some problems together as one family (Kody). In any event, the polygamist community said they are tired of living in secret and want to explain polygamous marriage to society as the way they say it should be understood ("Modern Polygamy"). Polygamist families said that if the United States allows polygamy, women would have the right and the freedom to leave any …show more content…
In this paper, the explanation of polygamous marriage is not in order to encourage people to do it or to switch their marriage type to polygamous, but it only to make people know and understand that there are different ways of marriage that they can do. And it is their rights.
Work Cited
Brown, Kody, et al. Becoming Barber, Nigle. "The Three Reasons for Polygamy.” Psychology Today. 23 Oct. 2012. Web. 15 Sept. 2015.
DeBoer, Fredrik. "It’s Time to Legalize Polygamy." POLITICO Magazine. 26 June 2015. Web 15 Sept. 2015.
"50 States with Legal Gay Marriage - Gay Marriage - ProCon.org."
Jacobson, Cordell K. Modern Polygamy in the United States Historical, Cultural, and Legal.ProConorg Headlines. Web. 15 Sept. 2015. Facts for Features: Unmarried and Single Americans Week, U.S. Census Bureau News.
The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 507. Print.
Yamani, Maha. Polygamy and law in contemporary Saudi Arabia.
Garnet Publishing Ltd, 2008.
Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis. Oxford: Berg,
2008. Print.
J Rehman - International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family,
Polygamy is the practice of having more than one spouse at one time and has been considered a controversial, and illicit social topic in the United States, earning attention as a subject in which different opinions are held. Polygamy has two types: polygyny, which means a man has more than one wife, and polyandry, which means a woman has more than one husband (The Oxford American Dictionary). Polygamy was legal over the world until the Roman Empire set up the rules of marriage and allowed only monogamous marriage. In fact, in the United States, the polygamy was acceptable when the Church of Mormon started at least within the church, and Mormons also known as LDS Church, …show more content…
However, by the time America legalizes polygamy, polygamous marriages would become more popular and easier to understand, which will probably promote to the whole world the idea of polygamy. Many people might think that racism and segregation by national origin have vanished from the world. However, sadly, they have not (Chou). Nonetheless, by accepting polygamy and making it legal, (which will help spreading it), people from different ethnicities might have a wife or a husband in common, and therefore, it would decrease racism in the society. For example, a man could have multiple spouses from different countries, or different races at the same time. While they are living together by their choice and not because of lack, they would live as conventionally as the sun rises-eat together, watch TV together, and even discuss some problems together as one family (Kody). In any event, the polygamist community said they are tired of living in secret and want to explain polygamous marriage to society as the way they say it should be understood ("Modern Polygamy"). Polygamist families said that if the United States allows polygamy, women would have the right and the freedom to leave any …show more content…
In this paper, the explanation of polygamous marriage is not in order to encourage people to do it or to switch their marriage type to polygamous, but it only to make people know and understand that there are different ways of marriage that they can do. And it is their rights.
Work Cited
Brown, Kody, et al. Becoming Barber, Nigle. "The Three Reasons for Polygamy.” Psychology Today. 23 Oct. 2012. Web. 15 Sept. 2015.
DeBoer, Fredrik. "It’s Time to Legalize Polygamy." POLITICO Magazine. 26 June 2015. Web 15 Sept. 2015.
"50 States with Legal Gay Marriage - Gay Marriage - ProCon.org."
Jacobson, Cordell K. Modern Polygamy in the United States Historical, Cultural, and Legal.ProConorg Headlines. Web. 15 Sept. 2015. Facts for Features: Unmarried and Single Americans Week, U.S. Census Bureau News.
The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 507. Print.
Yamani, Maha. Polygamy and law in contemporary Saudi Arabia.
Garnet Publishing Ltd, 2008.
Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis. Oxford: Berg,
2008. Print.
J Rehman - International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family,