For your interest.
All over the world it is the same. Women are dependents.
Women are mans children. Then they have children and those are also mans children.
Whether they are grateful and loving back, or not. What a frigging great deal there.
When I was in India, I saw a few polygamists who were unemployed drunks. Their wives would go out to work everyday though. I never figured out what was in it for them.
Shakespeare it ain't. Looks more like a cat walked across the keyboard.
The biggest penalty for having more than more than one wife is having more than one mother-in-law.
Sort of: "you can't do it, if you can't do it."
Nothing coming from South Africa surprises me-——it’s a geographically beautiful pit.
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Pretty soon you can be raking in close to half a million off all them American taxpaying suckers. And you be styling with your feet up all day long while your women feed you peeled grapes and they do all the work and baby-raising.
In the US all you have to do is get all your wives and kids on govt assistance
Matthew 19:4 “Haven’t you read,” he (Christ) replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[b]? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Does South Africa have welfare for single mothers and their children? That’s how Britain’s Moslem polygamists afford it, and how the American West’s Mormon polygamists afford it. The government supports the women and children, while the man is free as a bird, or the breeze.
In Utah they pay for it by “bleeding the monster”. “Monster” being the Government/Taxpayers.
The key to polygamy is poverty: Women could not grow enough to feed themselves independently, and without a son to feed them in their old age they would starve.
In Tribal Africa, polygamy allowed disabled/crippled etc. women to find husbands (to support them. In areas where war killed a lot of men, it allowed the women to find husbands.
However, one overlooked problem of polygamy is that it means poorer men can’t find wives. Why marry a poor man when a rich one can support you?
We once asked our African nursing students why a local shopkeeper, who had 5 wives, one for each of his stores, why a girl would agree to marry him. And the nurses said: Well, why not? They would always have enough to eat, a nice dress every year, and a good job in a store, not out in the fields working with crops.
and before you laugh, just remember: in the USA we have serial polygamy, and alas the divorced wives and children often end up in poverty.
I was on a business trip about 40 years ago, traveling through Utah with a guy that lived there. He said that you could tell how many wives a man had by the number of chimneys on his house. Each wife and set of kids had their own separate living area.