Why, that's polygamy.

Polygamy is widely practiced in Kenya.

Lodé, Thierry (2006) La Guerre des sexes chez les animaux .

We don't have polygamy in Japan, dear.

The Mormons have outlawed polygamy, but some adherents still practice it.

Disputes with the federal government ensued over the Mormon practice of polygamy.

Polygamy among these groups persists today in Utah and neighboring states as well as in the spin off colonies.

South America The Bororos ... among them...there are also cases of polyandry.

The law has changed to allow the perpetrator to only benefit from the attenuating circumstances, provided that he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.

Relations further improved after 1904, when church president Joseph F. Smith again disavowed polygamy before the United States Congress and issued a Second Manifesto , calling for all plural marriages in the church to cease, as they were already against church doctrine since Woodruff issued the Manifesto.

Polygamy is common, with 39 of women living in such unions.

Most, if not all of the members of the U.S. government opposed the polygamous practices of the Mormons.

Other practices, such as polygamy or the inheriting of widows, have become untenable in an AIDS era.

This is sanctioned by law, which automatically permits polygamy unless spouses specify that this is unacceptable upon marriage.

These concepts entered the cultural consciousness and the term open marriage became a synonym for sexually non monogamous marriage, much to the regret of the O'Neills.

Under the pretext of combating polygamy, second spouses and their children are condemned to illegality and to even greater dependence.

In 1887, the LDS Church was legally dissolved in the United States by the Edmunds Tucker Act because of the church's practice of polygamy.

It is this collection of husbands, having one wife in common, that...live together in a hut, with their common wife.

Among other things, new legislation would make polygamy the rule, rather than the exception, and would deprive women of an equal right to divorce.

Emma's continuing public denial of the practice seemed to lend strength to their cause, and opposition to polygamy became a tenet of the RLDS Church.

Instances of prominent social and political figures in polygamous relationships has led to the perception of polygamy as a symbol of wealth, status and power.

And there seems to be a clear intention in many Arab countries to allow unrestricted polygamy, for example, even where it was prohibited prior to the Arab Spring.

Many of the Latter Day Saints who joined the RLDS Church in the midwestern United States had broken with Brigham Young and or James Strang because of opposition to polygamy.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.

Mrs Swiebel, does, for example, the fact that polygamy is not accepted in the European Union mean that Muslims resident in Europe are discriminated against?

Monogamy ( ) is a form of relationship in which an individual has only one partner during their lifetime or at any one time (serial monogamy), as compared to polygyny, polyandry, or polyamory.

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.

However, throughout her lifetime Emma publicly denied knowledge of her husband's involvement in the practice of polygamy and denied on her deathbed that the practice had ever occurred.

During times of major economic demographic transitions, investing more in a fewer offspring (social monogamy not polygyny) increases reproductive success by ensuring the offspring themselves have enough initial wealth to be successful.

Emma stated,Emma Smith claimed that the very first time she ever became aware of a polygamy revelation being attributed to Joseph Smith was when she read about it in 1853 in Orson Pratt's booklet The Seer .

Milton abandoned his campaign to legitimise divorce after 1645, but he expressed support for polygamy in the De Doctrina Christiana , the theological treatise that provides the clearest evidence for his views.

It matters little whether it was the staff or the rapporteurs, although, legally, it is the rapporteur who is responsible for his or her report, but how, Madam President, can this Parliament be expected to vote on reports concerning financial cooperation with five or six countries when we have no information at all about those countries ?

While a tokol, or tokal, is by no means the second wife as envisaged in Islamic tradition, men do use use the Islamic ritual of nikah to legitimize their extramarital relationships in the two countries where polygamy remains illegal.

As the church began openly practicing plural marriage under Brigham Young during the second half of the 19th century, the church became the target of nation wide criticism for that practice, as well as for the church's theocratic aspirations in the Utah Territory.

A survey of other cross cultural samples has confirmed that the absence of the plough was the only predictor of polygamy, although other factors such as high male mortality in warfare (in non state societies) and pathogen stress (in state societies) had some impact.

A molecular genetic study of global human genetic diversity argued that sexual polygyny was typical of human reproductive patterns until the shift to sedentary farming communities approximately 10,000 to 5,000 years ago in Europe and Asia, and more recently in Africa and the Americas.

While polygamy has a long history in both countries, the modern day tokol is less a second wife and more a woman on the side, who may fulfil the roles of wife, paramour and counsellor simultaneously, all the while keeping a low profile so as not to destroy the man's 'first' family.

At no point does this report on family reunification allow for situations such as those Mr Pirker has mentioned polygamy or the possibility of applying this directive to future wives and I would like this to be recorded in the Minutes because I think this is a very serious statement which can only be born of ignorance or bad faith.