We hate polygamy, even because Mormon has supported polygamy, making the Mormon Republican presidential candidate Mitt Ronnie in the election dilemma, although Mormon a hundred years ago already Gave up polygamy. US law is against polygamy, and in 1878 the Supreme Court of the United States opposed the polygamy that: "polygamy in the Nordic and Western European countries have been deeply abhorred ... ..." means that polygamy and civilization run counter to. So why are we part of the world hostile to polygamy?
In some places, polyandry or polygamy is very common. In poor countries, about one in six women share their husbands, and 55% in the Gulf of Benin. In developed countries, men divorced and then remarried (stalled even more) the phenomenon of commonplace (women divorced after a little less remarried). Nowadays, obsession with "hate" polygamy has spawned a successful soap opera: "Big Love".
Why do some countries like polygamy? To
I have studied 32 countries where at least 5% of married women are in polygamous marriages. The study found that, first, the total population of men is relatively small, the polygamous marriage more. There are more polygamous marriages in countries that are experiencing serious crisis of crisis. Where the woman favors the resistance of the disease stronger man when the child his father. They are more concerned about the man's physical attraction and have a stronger sexual drive. Second, those men who can monopolize wealth (in the form of money or in the form of cultivable land) have more women who share a husband.
Surprisingly, in terms of the causes of polygamy, humans and animals are basically the same. Contrary to popular conjecture, polygamy is unrelated to women's poverty, backwardness and oppression (for example, receptive to domestic violence). In fact, the Mormon Catholics won the vote in 1871 as early as other women in the United States.
Why do people in developed countries hate polygamy? To
In those underdeveloped tropical countries, polygamy is working well, but in developed regions at high latitudes it is not. why? There are three key reasons. First, the developed public health system to save the man more than women, so there is no relatively rare situation of men; second, high latitude cold winter makes the mother without the help of her husband is almost impossible to raise children alone ; Third, the developed countries a high degree of urbanization, in the city to raise a large family of children is relatively difficult, most men can not afford to support the expenditure of multiple families. In the agricultural society will be different, the child can participate in labor, to contribute to the family economy.
Recalling the late 19th century, the US Supreme Court's attack on Mormon polygamy was an interesting thing when the US Supreme Court also criticized their own biblical traditions. They have forgotten the beloved ancestors of the Old Testament and many of their wives. We do not have to be too foolish about Isaac, David, Solomon and their relatives, who live in a popular polygonal green belt, where the survival comes from grazing rather than urban commerce. They do not know anything about modern medicine, and they are particularly concerned about the genes that fight disease.