Polygamous Marriage Should Be Recognised

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On the point: It would create demographic imbalance

Firstly this is a choice among people. We do not encourage people to have polygamous marriages. So even if we legalise it not everyone would be married. Just like not everyone has married in a monogamous way. But we know that by making it legal and publicising It, the world would start to understand that women have every right as well. So sooner or later, more and more women would start having multiple husbands. Now, because then there would be polyandry and polygyny, that the female, male ratio would be normal.

Also it is not destined that every man or women should get married. Some don't even want to. So it's not a rule that every man who is not married is miserable and excluded. Many people even just have long term relationships, without marriage. Married people can divorce, people could die. All this, makes it hard for anyone to just say that a little imbalance will cause such a big problem, because unevenness is inevitable it could not cause a problem, we already live in an imbalanced world.

And finally who said, a unmarried person has all those problems. It's not because there is polygamy that the person can't find a spouse. But it's more of a social conflict, "can you get a person to like you and spend time with you". Polygamy is just a way you can shape this relationship, but it is not the cause or the solution.

In current world, most of polygamous marriages are polygynies, which includes multiple wives to one male. Number of these families is limited because of psychical barrier of doing illegal things and having mindset of monogamous family. With recognising polygamous marriage, the barrier will be removed and there will be an increase of females living together with just one male causing surplus of unmarried men, who will be unable to find a free partner [[http://goo.gl/n8VCu]]. Natural sex ratio of born children is around 105 born males to 100 born females [[http://goo.gl/g3uqY]] , causing similar number of each gender, which creates harmony in worlds partners market.
If this demographic balance is broken, it can have fatal consequences on individuals as well as on entire society.
Unmarried individuals have much higher chance of health problems caused by stressful searching, lack of female care and depressions [[http://goo.gl/SD6xt]] Secondly, unmarried men will be excluded from the society because of fragile social status which can be seen in India [[http://goo.gl/ABDdK]], which harms their personality as well as possibilities of social functioning.
Society will be influenced on economic level, because parents are accumulating wealth to make their sons more attractive, which is reducing their market position as we can see in China with sex ratio 1.18, in some rural areas 1.4. [[http://goo.gl/vwsQV]].
Moreover, unmarried men will be excluded from society, which will cause tensions between married and unmarried individuals. Secondly, there will increase competition among free individuals for remaining females, which can lead to conflicts. Moreover, willingness of sex partner can cause higher gender-based violence, including rising demand for sex work and human trafficking.
At the end of the day, recognition of polygamous marriage will make great number of men unmarried, which does not help nor country, nor individuals.

 

No, because... It would create demographic imbalance

Firstly this is a choice among people. We do not encourage people to have polygamous marriages. So even if we legalise it not everyone would be married. Just like not everyone has married in a monogamous way. But we know that by making it legal and publicising It, the world would start to understand that women have every right as well. So sooner or later, more and more women would start having multiple husbands. Now, because then there would be polyandry and polygyny, that the female, male ratio would be normal.

Also it is not destined that every man or women should get married. Some don't even want to. So it's not a rule that every man who is not married is miserable and excluded. Many people even just have long term relationships, without marriage. Married people can divorce, people could die. All this, makes it hard for anyone to just say that a little imbalance will cause such a big problem, because unevenness is inevitable it could not cause a problem, we already live in an imbalanced world.

And finally who said, a unmarried person has all those problems. It's not because there is polygamy that the person can't find a spouse. But it's more of a social conflict, "can you get a person to like you and spend time with you". Polygamy is just a way you can shape this relationship, but it is not the cause or the solution.

 

In current world, most of polygamous marriages are polygynies, which includes multiple wives to one male. Number of these families is limited because of psychical barrier of doing illegal things and having mindset of monogamous family. With recognising polygamous marriage, the barrier will be removed and there will be an increase of females living together with just one male causing surplus of unmarried men, who will be unable to find a free partner[1]. Natural sex ratio of born children is around 105 born males to 100 born females[2] , causing similar number of each gender, which creates harmony in worlds partners market. If this demographic balance is broken, it can have fatal consequences on individuals as well as on entire society. Unmarried individuals have much higher chance of health problems caused by stressful searching, lack of female care and depressions[3] Secondly, unmarried men will be excluded from the society because of fragile social status which can be seen in India[4], which harms their personality as well as possibilities of social functioning. Society will be influenced on economic level, because parents are accumulating wealth to make their sons more attractive, which is reducing their market position as we can see in China with sex ratio 1.18, in some rural areas 1.4.[5]. Moreover, unmarried men will be excluded from society, which will cause tensions between married and unmarried individuals. Secondly, there will increase competition among free individuals for remaining females, which can lead to conflicts. Moreover, willingness of sex partner can cause higher gender-based violence, including rising demand for sex work and human trafficking. At the end of the day, recognition of polygamous marriage will make great number of men unmarried, which does not help nor country, nor individuals.

  1. ^ http://goo.gl/n8VCu
  2. ^ http://goo.gl/g3uqY
  3. ^ http://goo.gl/SD6xt
  4. ^ http://goo.gl/ABDdK
  5. ^ http://goo.gl/vwsQV

 
22 February 2011