Multiple Wives

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Marrying more than 1 person is against the law, but living in a relationship with more than 1 isn't. Legally you would only be able to claim one of the people as your spouse though.
I always wonder about visitors to the country that have more than 1 wife ? Sheiks etc arive with a few in tow, and possibly spend time residing here as well.

If you was to marry another person in a place where it is legal then would you be breaking any uk laws ?
 
Polygamy, though practiced by the Hebrews in the Old Testament times, is still technically adulterous. I think it was permitted (theologically) on the basis of it being an act of mercy toward the many women who were left husbandless in the wake of the horrific wars fought at the time, where the losing side often had the vast majority of its male population executed. There is no similar justification today that I can think of.
 

The general complaint is that women in polygamous relationships are more likely to be abused and that children coming from those relationships are more likely to have worse chidlhoods (there's higher infant mortality rates for one) due to economic concerns or jealousy among the wives.

Closed communties where powerful men have multiple wives generally force young girls into marriage and young boys into exile as soon as they hit adulthood. Pretty much every purely polygamous community to ever exist has generated a class of violent poor young men and oppressed, controlled young women.

Having said I tend to agree that if everyone involved agrees to form a trio or whatever, they're not doing anyone else any harm and shouldn't be stopped. A wholly monogomous society is I think a superior way of raising children then a wholly polygamous one but on an indivual level there's no reason both types of relationships can't be options and you erase most of the problems with polygamy if you don't isolate the polygamists.
 
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