It shows that polygamy is allowed in countries mainly in Africa and Asia, including Algeria, Mali, Niger, Saudi Arabia and Iran. We must focus our efforts on the legal recognition of marriages between more than two partners. It is time to legalize polygamy. The morality and social value of polygamy are hotly debated. Westerners who promote polygamy for religious reasons (usually marginal Mormons) often claim that households with more parental contributions can create richer and more stable family life for their children. However, opponents argue that polygamy is exploitation and is based on the false belief that women are inherently worth less than men – and that those who promote polygamy are most likely to benefit from maintaining this belief. Nice map, but the color scheme fails. 2 similar shades of blue? Maybe green for permit, gray for ambivalent, light red for unforced illegals and dark red for forced illegals? This subsection of Christianity is known for its historically atypical attitude toward polygamy. In the United States, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, based in Utah, practiced polygamy from 1847 to 1890, which it called “plural marriage.” The U.S. government declared polygamy illegal in 1862, mostly in response to the LDS Church. The church, recognizing that support for polygamy prevented the state of Utah, banned the practice in 1890, and the church`s founder, Joseph Smith, disavowed the practice in 1904. Some small Mormon groups that have split from the LDS Church still practice polygamy, as do some members of society as a whole, but these unions are not legally registered or recognized. Group marriage is an umbrella term for marriages involving multiple husbands as well as multiple wives.
Polyamory is the practice of having multiple romantic relationships, with all parties having complete knowledge and giving full consent. Not related to marriage. Polygeny is the (outdated) theory that the different races of humanity evolved from different ancestral groups. This term has nothing to do with polygamy, but is sometimes confused with “polygyny”, so it is included here for clarity. This map is completely inaccurate, even without taking into account the widespread lack of enforcement when it is illegal. Religion often plays a role in how polygamy is governed and practiced in a single country. In Nigeria, for example, polygamous marriage is not allowed at the federal level, but the ban only applies to civil marriages. Twelve Muslim-majority northern states recognize these unions as Islamic or customary marriages. In India, Muslim men are allowed to marry multiple women, men of other groups are not. However, in countries where polygamy is common, it is often practiced by people of all faiths.
This is the case in Gambia, Niger, Mali, Chad, and Burkina Faso, where at least one in ten people from each religious group measured live in households where husbands live with more than one spouse. She said: “If I ever decide that I want a family or that I want to raise my children in a community family, there will be so many legal complications that are difficult to deal with. However, as the world becomes more homogeneous, a global company – Facebook – has taken a clear stand against polygamy, as users cannot be “connected” with more than one person at a time. I think there is a lack of nuance of importance here. The practice of polygamy and polyandry is legal in all states of the United States. It`s just an attempt to establish legal privileges (i.e. civil marriage, which has consequences for tax deductions, intestinal inheritance, child support in the event of divorce, Medicare & Social Security calculations, adoption, etc.) that are illegal. Nearly a dozen countries that do not allow polygamous civil marriages recognize polygamous marriages at common law.
All states in northern Nigeria governed by Islamic Sharia law recognize polygamous marriages. The autonomous regions of Somaliland and Puntland in northern Somalia recognize polygamy, as does the country`s transitional government itself, as the country is subject to Sharia law. Newly independent South Sudan also recognizes polygamy. The legal status of polygamy varies widely around the world. Polygamy is legal in 58 of the approximately 200 sovereign states, the vast majority of which are Muslim-majority countries. Polyandry is illegal in virtually all countries and strictly forbidden in Islam. [ref. needed] Several non-Muslim countries (particularly in sub-Saharan Africa) allow polygamy among Muslims in their communities. Some countries that allow polygamy have restrictions, such as requiring the first wife to give consent. The data on the prevalence of polygamous households was part of a Pew Research Center report on household composition by religion around the world.
Not all people who practice polygamy live in polygamous households. Sometimes two or more wives of the same man each have their own home. Details of the categories of household types can be found in the methodology. Details of polygamy laws around the world can be found from the OECD Development Centre and the UN Human Rights Office. Some countries where polygamy is legal are not signatories to the ICCPR, including Qatar, Oman, Malaysia, Brunei, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan and the United Arab Emirates; so that the ICCPR does not apply to these countries. [152] The Department of Justice Canada has argued that polygamy is a violation of international human rights law. [153] In other parts of the world, including parts of the Middle East and Asia, polygamy is legal but not widespread. And in some countries – particularly in a segment of West and Central Africa known as polygamy belts – the practice is often legal and widespread. Polygamy was historically legal due to the devastation caused by war and pandemics. A man was supposed to take care of his brother`s wife when his brother died and to make everything “easier”, they simply got married and moved into the same house.