What is a polygamous community?

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Answer 1

It's usually when you have one rooster, co-mingling with a lot of different hens, kinda like the Harems, that the ancient Kings used to have!

Answer 2

The Feds just busted a polygamous community it Texas a couple of months ago. This practice of polygamy is against the law in our country but the law is not really enforced because of legal questions involved. The only reason the community in Texas was singled-out was because it was discovered that 50 year-old husbands were taking 13-14 year-old wives. David

Answer 3

Marriage to more than one spouse at a time. Although the term may also refer to polyandry (marriage to more than one man), it is often used as a synonym for polygyny (marriage to more than one woman), which appears to have once been common in most of the world and is still found widely in some cultures. Polygyny seems to offer the husband increased prestige, economic stability, and sexual companionship in cultures where pregnancy and lactation dictate abstinence, while offering the wives a shared labour burden and an institutionalized role where a surplus of unmarried women might otherwise exist. The polygynous family is often fraught with bickering and sexual jealousy; to preserve harmony, one wife may be accorded seniority, and each wife and her children may have separate living quarters. Polyandry is relatively rare; in parts of the Himalayas, where brothers may marry a single woman, the practice serves to limit the number of descendants and keep limited land within the household