[Bushwacker777]

This guy has 80 children and I think he has 20 wives. You know, this is maybe the answer to both low fertility rates in the western word as well as maybe being a family model that is more suited to the information age rather than the agrarian model. Many women with ambition and high IQs have to choose between career and family (at least they think they do) and maybe this sort of family model could solve that problem -- if a man has 4 wives maybe he and two of the wives work outside the home and two could take care of all the children. Also, there seems to be a lack of strong men today and the one thing you can say about a polygamist committed to his religion is that he certainly is no blue-state, metrosexual with a case of Peter Pan Syndrome.

[Albion Wilde]

No, thanks, Bushwhacker. It ain't enough sex for a red-blooded Amurrican woman, and it ain't Christian, either:

1 ...It is good for a man not to marry. 2 But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. --1 Corinthians 7:1-3

[Mark Felton]

Most American men are polygamists. Only they do it one wife at a time. The most destructive way possible.

Imagine if a man had 3 wives at the same time then started casting them out on the street with their particular children. There would be an uproar.

Yet that is what we, as a society, approve of today.

If you want to have a dozen wives just do it. Marry yourselves in your church and don;t ask the government for a license or permission, or tax break.

There are many polyamory homes in the Houston area. They are perfectly legal.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Your approval of this man and his lifestyle is appalling. I can't believe anyone would approve of young girls being forced to marry and old man against their will. Sure he makes it sound great, he's the benificiary of the young virgins for sex, but these girls/women see it very differently.

This is part of the Warren Jeffs sect of Polygamy that broke away to Canada.

[Texas_shutterbug]

NO THANKS!

God didn't make women to enjoy sexual pleasure so we could get it once every six weeks. :(

[wideawake]

The answer to low fertility rates in the West is not continuing to abandon Christian marriage, but for Christians to marry and have the amount of children God chooses to give them.

Polygamy is more suited to the agrarian age than monogamy is: the more hands there are to work a farm the better.

Dignified people, whether they live in an information age or not, do not choose to share their spouse with others.

In any culture where polygamy is pervasive, indolence is the rule and pedophilia is inevitable.

Even societies that are theoretically polygamous - like Islam - are almost wholly monogamous in practice because of the impracticability of polygamy. Even in Islam, only the very wealthy or the very rural are polygamous.

[JRochelle]

Thats the dumbest argument for polygamy ever.

Those women average 4 kids each. They could have had the same amount of kids if they each had their own husband.

Why not have women have more than one husband? 2 men supporting one woman and all the kids she can pop out?
That would be great!

[Mr. Jeeves]

Hey, you started another "Die, heretic!" thread! LOL!

Polygamous relationships only work if all of the women involved are bisexual. One man with 20 straight, frigid, brainwashed "wives" is just an abusive personality cult.

[Hatteras]

"...if a man has 4 wives maybe he and two of the wives work outside the home and two could take care of all the children."

Hell, I can't handle the ONE that I have. Why in the heck would anybody (in their right mind, of course) want 3 more?!!!

BTW, I'm pretty certain she feels the same about me. ;-)

[Centurion2000]

bump for later

[steve-b]

Q: What's the penalty for bigamy?
A: Two mothers-in-law.

[LauraleeBraswell]

Other than marriage should be between a man and a woman

"Many women with ambition and high IQs have to choose between career and family (at least they think they do) and maybe this sort of family model could solve that problem"


Or he could just father eighty children with twenty women and pay child support. But think about it, How does one man financially support all those children? It's financially draining. The wives all have to work anyway. A group of single mothers could get together and do the same thing. This doesn't solve anything.

Also this the type of family system you would want to build a country on?

Another issue with polygamous sects is the competition for eligible women. It causes allot of problems. The woman to man population ratio is 1:1, when you exclude the fact that elderly women live longer than men. As competition for wives increases, boys are often cast out of the community.