To me it stands to reason that there are inherant difficulties with polygamy as a widespread practice. The clue is in the birthrate. In normal conditions arond 105 boys are born to 100 girls. Usually infant mortality is higher among boys. So any system that multiplies wives has to mean that there will be many without, even accounting for homosexuality and other impediments to marriage. It really is a zero sum game that is bound to produce some negative entails of some sort. And so it is that the FLDS gives us a peek at one set of entailments...
It’s usually older men who get second, third and sometimes more wives, brides who are usually teenagers.
Left behind are angry, frustrated young men.
It's interesting to note that this may be one case of natural law ethics that may be relatively easy to make. Unless, of course, you know differently? Let me know.
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You're right I do mean, more precisely, polygny. The benefits you mention to widespread polygamy [understood in the wider sense] would also be and have been, in effect, found in closer family and or communities which don't have the kind of polygamy you mention. Courtesy aunts and uncles and so forth. Strictly you can't have more than two parents. The issue is whether adults other than parents can enjoy a quasi-parental role and that doesn't require polyamory/gamy. And the only near-examples I can think of where it's been tried have been very detrimental to the children who have become involved in too-early sexual experience.
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