Dennis Prager

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.

American Journalist

David Josiah Brewer

It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil.

American Judge

Jeanne Tripplehorn

The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.

American Actress

Ramzan Kadyrov

Polygamy is needed to prevent a man from taking up a lover, which can cause health issues and rifts in the family and would lead him to live a lie, constantly deceiving his wife and children.

Chechen Politician

Molly Ivins

Those who imagine polygamy to be handy cover for promiscuity are apparently off the mark. If polygamists share one quality, it is that, polygamy aside, they are extraordinarily strait-laced.

Malcolm Gladwell

It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.

Canadian Author

Scott Anderson

So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.

Abraham Lincoln

If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

American President

Marine Le Pen

We are very, very far from recognising polygamy in our country, thank God.

French Politician

Elbert Hubbard

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

American Writer

Be aware that discussing polygamy can be sensitive due to cultural and legal differences.

Cultural Sensitivity

Understand that polygamy is illegal in many places and heavily regulated where it is permitted.

Legal Implications

Don't confuse polygamy with polyamory, which is about multiple romantic relationships, not marriage.

Not Polyamory

Be cautious about representations of polygamy in media; they can be biased or inaccurate.

Media Representation

Both 'polygyny' and 'polyandry' are forms of polygamy, referring to one man with multiple wives, and one woman with multiple husbands, respectively.

Vocabulary Nuances

In zoology, polygamy refers to animals, not humans, and patterns can vary widely across species.

Animal Behavior

Understand that animal polygamy is normal in some species and is not the same as human polygamy.

Species Specific

When studying zoology, exploring the context of polygamy can provide insight into social structures.

Research Context

 And they are heterosexuals who come from countries that have traditions of polygamy and relatively high levels of female autonomy, and almost all of those countries are in east or southern Africa. And that is reflected in the epidemic that we have today. You can see these horrifying figures from Africa.

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