Polygamy

preventing domestic violence, for example, we also recognize that there are many more abusive monogamous relationship than there are polygamous ones. The burden of the State of Arizona in this case is to find a causal link between the institution of polygamy and abuse, a burden which has not been met. We do find that there may be compelling state interest in the form of complicated inheritance…

approach to the Quran rather than reading it verse by verse. The traditional interpretation of polygamy is another example of how this interpretation discriminates against women in the name of Islam. According to traditionalists, a man may marry up to four wives at any given time. Verse 4:3, one of the most often cited passages to justify polygamous practices,…

involves a minor then that is when a line is being crossed. Polygamy causes no harm when everyone has a mutual understanding. It should not be illegal because polygamous marriage is and can also be religion based on another culture. America has freedom of religion, by allowing one religion to take control of removing another cultural ideal then that is not giving those people any religious rights that they have access to. If polygamy is not harming anyone in any shape or form and is strictly…

dangerous content. The novel encourages people to adopt a lifestyle of drugs, isolation, and polygamy. It urges people to have a negative attitude toward their family and have repressive tolerance. It displays these things in a positive light and can prove to easily manipulate weak minded people into believing the ideas are accurate. The amount of drug use, isolation,the negative attitude toward family, polygamy, and repressive tolerance leads to only one conclusion. The novel Brave New World…

Religion is a major part of people’s lives all around the world today. Religion means something different to each individual. Whether it’s an escape from reality, a reason to live, or simply the feeling of belonging to a community, religion has a significant influence over people and their actions. The Muslims in the Middle East are especially impressive when it comes to their devotion to Allah. But there is a question of one thing in regards to women of the Islamic faith living overseas.…

ago the practice of polygamy was abolished by the Mormon religion. Still it is widely believed that the Mormons practice polygamy. The practice was adopted due to the widespread death, murder and persecution of the saints traveling west. In the 1800s the saints were persecuted and forced to head west. Many saints died along the wagon trails, during that time women could not own land. Many women lost their husbands and would have been left stranded had the practice of polygamy not been…

Social evils like Sati, Polygamy, child marriage, female infanticide and the prevention of widow remarriage arose as they were treated as chattels. Apart from that, evil of dowry seemed to have prevailed especially in Rajasthan6. But medieval period has witnessed eminent and brilliant…

Chinua Achebe depicts the Igbo culture in Africa. In the Igbo society polygamy exists, where men are able to have multiple wives and women cannot. Not only are women bound to one man while men have many wives, but also women do not have any power in the society. This, coupled with the fact that the culture despises women, presents Things Fall Apart as a sexist novel. Things Fall Apart is a sexist novel because of the polygamy. Men are allowed to have multiple wives while…

placed on similar ideas like chastity and polygamy by others during colonization. The New Mexico Franciscans also placed great importance on ideas like chastity and said how “The Franciscan God demanded chastity before and monogamy within marriage.”(84). The natives who had converted and chose to not follow this, were whipped with lashes and that was sometimes followed by a smearing dose of turpentine. It is important to consider that the natives practiced polygamy as part of their culture for…

Equality is something that is viewed as one of the main foundations that America was built on, yet it also is one of the core struggles that the U.S. has had to deal with over time. It was easy, for example, to vote to give African Americans the right to vote, but it was not easy to change the minds of the people that opposed them having the right to vote, and get them to treat African Americans as equals. Equality is the ability to have every person treated as an equal, for every person to have…