Opinion Of Polygamy

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What do you think about a marriage system called polygamy? Polygamy is the meaning will be “often married”. A man can marry as many women as he wants. Do you agree if your boyfriend or husband has other girlfriend or wife? Most women think polygamy is absolute nonsense and insincere sentiment, and some men think so too. On the other hand, some men think it sounds too good to be true because they can have an affair and cheating in state. Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and Bali agree polygamy. In this circumstance, there are many Muslim people in these countries, and polygamy is not a serious matter under the doctrine of Muslim. No one knows what are polygamy 's origins, but many countries had polygamy in old times because the war (What 's the History …show more content…

There is one story about polygamy. According to Amanda Deverich work with polygamist family, she argues that polygamous divorce is common because polygamy hurts women’s feeling, and women should accept all wives. For example, there was one polygamist family. First wife had two children and second wife had three children. First wife’s two children became good family with second wife so much. However, second wife’s three children could not accept first wife and she felt that she should leave from them (Deverich). She was of course jealous of second wife and hurt her so deeply. Polygamy makes women feel jealous, lonely and sad. This is also women’s …show more content…

Husband is human, and he has feeling. Husband may have favorite wife, and he would love favorite wife’s children. Polygamy makes children sad because they can feel father’s different love between themselves and other mother’s children. Also, they need to see their father love other mother’s children. It is weird and hurts children. There is one woman is one of 13 children raised by one father and three mothers in a polygamist family in Utah. Her brother and sister should love all wives the same even though they know who their biological mother is. Her family seems happy, but they feel jealous and pain in reality (I Grew Up in a Polygamist Family). Children feel pain in polygamist family, and they do not show sad feeling. It means children cannot receive proper education in polygamist family. In addition, children cannot know hot to love people exactly because their father has many wives. On the other hand, children do not have to feel jealous and stress for other wives if they were born in monogamist family, and it is probably helpful for them to receive proper

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