Polyandry

Everhart and Hunnicutt used multiple narratives from respondents within their work. One respondent whose name is Chris described their abuse relationship, for in their description Chris’s partner practiced a form of polyandry, in which she had multiple partners. Chris described how their partner made them feel uncomfortable, and sexual assault was present within the relationship. Additionally, the sexual assault that Chris experienced was at the hands of their partner and another perpetrator.…

evolutionary process having important consequences on reproductive behaviour, morphology, and fitness (Birkhead and Pizzari, 2002). Sexual selection research has often focused on pre-copulatory mate choice; however, the discovery of female promiscuity and polyandry has lead to the realization that mate choice continues to operate after copulation (Birkhead and Pizzari, 2002). For males, it is obvious that promiscuity has evolved to increase reproductive fitness; however, the potential benefits…

The recent Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage nationwide has some people up in a frenzy. Many have questions regarding the decision itself and the validity of the statement “Does the legalization of Gay Marriage pave the way for polygamy.” A word to look at in the scenario is “fear.” Unfortunately people are afraid of things or practices foreign to them. This is why many people are feeling threatened by the decision and are having legitimate questions. This is normal, these changes…

myself, my family and friends practices monogamy. Most of my family members and friends are not even aware that they practice monogamy. To them, it is all they know and are accustomed to. They do not even consider other practices like polygamy or polyandry; probably because it was never exposed to them. According to Dalton Conley (2015), monogamy is “the practice of having only one sexual partner or spouse at a time” (p. 372). In other words, only having one wife or husband. I believe the…

In our society we are not fully aware of the different types of marital structures that western modern societies have been practicing. There has been a standout on multiculturalism because of the physical effort a lot of history on how polyamory and nonmonogamy has changed over time. These are two of martial structures that have existed in modern society. In society, we have known that many people in American culture practice monogamy because it is something that our society has accepted for…

1) Perhaps the most important feature of primate parenting is how extensive their investment is in raising their children. Primate take great care of their offspring and expend a lot of energy and time raising them. This also goes along with the fact that primates mature fairly slowly, meaning more time is needed to care for them before they become independent/mature. This leads to primates being slow reproducers, taking longer before they're ready to have another child/children. Some primates…

committed to build their life together, and respond to their civics and social responsibilities like families. Moreover, gay marriage can increase social stability by decreasing the number of single person worldwide, by dropping the number of polygamy, polyandry, and bigamy in certain countries, and by increasing the number of children adoption since they cannot procreate…

to achieve our principal and most basic goal as a species: reproduction. Against the common belief, the word polygamy includes every kind of relations that involve more than one spouse, which includes the terms polygyny (many wives, one husband), polyandry (many husbands, one wife), and group marriages (many husbands and wives). Polygamy does not achieve perversion; polygamy is a way to connect with others and form special and unique bonds. Polygamy has been practiced all through history, in…

The average women will get married at the age of twenty-seven, but in America, there are girls getting married as young as the age of twelve. Marriage at age twelve may seem impossible because in today’s society it is a taboo. However, The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) has been known for marrying young brides. In the early 2000s, a scandal concerning the FLDS swept over the nation. This resulted in a nationwide yearning for more information about the FLDS, but…

The anthropological perspective is that, a nuclear family is the basic building block from which one can describe other forms of family formation. A nuclear household consists of a man, his wife and their children and a nuclear family is made up of only two generations, bound together by the dependence of a child upon its parent’s for nurturing, tender, love and care. There are two kinds of relationships in the nuclear family a vertical ties of nuclear family and horizontal ties of a nuclear…