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A study conducted by a team of researchers from the U.K., Tanzania and the U.S. has found an example of polygynous marriage that does not appear to be harmful to women or children. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers outline their study of people living in villages in Tanzania, and why they believe organizations such as the UN need to modify their stance on the practice to better take account of cultural practices.
Polygny is a term used to refer to marriage systems where males can have more than one wife, while polygamy refers to the actual practice of it. In this new study, the researchers looked into the question of whether a polygnynous marriage is in fact harmful to women or children as has been assumed by many in the international community. They looked at 3,500 households in villages in Tanzania, noting the occurrences of polygnynous marriage versus monogamous marriage and the standard of living for those women and children.
In looking at their data, they found that first wives—women who were the first to marry a man with several wives, tended to have better nutrition as did their children, than women in monogamous marriages and their children. Later wives and their children fared on average as well as monogamous wives and their children, but not as well as first wives. This, the team claims, shows that not all instances of polygynous marriage are harmful to women or children—it shows that in some cases, it can actually be a practice that women can use to better their lives and that of their children. It is a matter of wealth and the rules that govern a society—if women cannot own land or other resources, for example, or take a job, as was the case in the Tanzanian villages, they will likely do better in life if they are able to attract and marry a man with some degree of wealth, which in some cases may mean, a man with multiple wives.
How do the husbands fare?
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 28 2015, @12:37PM
Old white men?
http://blackpeopleagainstabortion.com/aboutbpaa.html [blackpeopleagainstabortion.com]
http://spectator.org/articles/61552/reflections-roe-when-margaret-sanger-spoke-kkk [spectator.org]
http://www.blackgenocide.org/sanger05.html [blackgenocide.org]
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Wednesday October 28 2015, @12:40PM
touche! But a look at the composition of congress...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2015, @12:49PM
Irrelevant. Nobody in congress is advocating polygamy, and likely never will.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday October 28 2015, @04:45PM
Yeah, marriage would imply benefits in the after divorce or separation. Can't have the mistresses stealing cash. With the current system, at most they can claim is child support--but that first requires proving the accused Congresscritter to be the father.
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(Score: 2, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 28 2015, @12:54PM
Fair enough - congress consists mostly of old white men. And, those old white men are moving to defund the organization which ends the lives of unborn black babies for pay. How unfortunate that PP has run at the mouth, and allowed themselves to be captured on video. Most recently, one of their number has bragged about the partial birth abortions she has performed.
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/10/27/new-cmp-video-shows-planned-parenthood-doc-bragging-about-changing-techniques-for-organ-harvesting/ [hotair.com]
I grabbed the first link that popped up - I first read the story on an MSM site.
(Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Wednesday October 28 2015, @09:26PM
Its simply a regional perspective where the main advocates of controlling women's bodies are old white men. I do like your correction since stereotypes are generally bad and in this case let a lot of people escape blame.
~Tilting at windmills~