polygamy
Polygamy is the practice of a man taking more than one wife at the same time. Polyandry is when a woman takes more that one husband at the same time. Polyandry is rare compared to polygamy, because it is only known to be inexistence in two parts of the world. One is among the Nair people who are inhabitants of India’s Malabar Coast. The other is in Tibet, where a woman can take her husband’s brothers as her mates. This paper will be focused strictly on the debate over polygamy. It does more harm than good and should be banned and enforced strongly within the United States’ borders. Being married to more than one person at the same time has been illegal in the U.S. since 1862, but has not been enforced strictly. The Mormon Church is well known for practicing polygamy, but the church banned it in 1980. Over a period of forty years, the church endured serious federal efforts to crack down on the practice of polygamy. Dr. Irwin Altman, a professor of psychology at the University o!f Utah in Salt Lake City say, “Today there are some twenty thousand to forty thousand people who are practicing polygamy in the state of Utah.” He also states, “Some forty years ago, the numbers were within the hundreds or low thousands.” It has also been
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Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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