I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.
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.
As many as half of Ethiopia's girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.
All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
That was a misconception among a lot of people - that Mormons are polygamist. No, they're not. I mean they obviously have that in their history, and there are some fundamentalists.
My grandfather was a polygamous man, and he had two wives, and between him and his two wives, we are about 200 or so in our family.