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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother had two daughters, and my mother had two daughters. My sister had a daughter and then finally a son. You should have seen my father with the son. He could not believe that finally there was a boy in the family.
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.
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.
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.
My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.
I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.