Modern day polygamy in Africa: first wife feeding second wife goes viral

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One Man, Many Wives, Big Problems

. "And remember: Everyunbalanced polygynous marriage, other things being equal, leaves some man bereft of the opportunity to marry, which is no small cost to that man.

The social dynamics of zero-sum marriage are ugly. In a polygamous world, boys could no longer grow up taking marriage for granted. Many would instead see marriage as a trophy in a sometimes brutal competition for wives. Losers would understandably burn with resentment, and most young men, even those who eventually won, would fear losing. Although much has been said about polygamy's inegalitarian implications for women who share a husband, the greater victims of inequality would be men who never become husbands."


It's cool, knives and guns work the same on any man. It's one thing to be poor, it's another not to be able to find a wife. People will figure it out like they always have. Ask the Sabines.
 

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u should be able to have as many wives as u can afford
1 wife is a western world ting
Africans been doing this hundreds if not thousands of years :yeshrug:
 

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This. Both my grand dad's had multiple wives, and both were poor village farmers. Neither were Muslim either.

Lots of ignorance being bandied around as facts here.
The post you quoted was replying to my post. I've thanked everybody here who has corrected or clarified my assumptions.
In fact, at the end of my first post here I asked for people with more knowledge to educate me.


I've known people from different regions and this topic has come up before. Polygamy in Africa surfaces as a topic in American media every 10 years or so. I'm guessing now that perhaps some weren't comfortable discussing it as part of their cultural history....as more than a few of these people were Igbo.

You can miss me with the "lot of ignorance being bandied around as facts here" line.
 
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