Eritrea men to marry at least 2 wives or face imprisonment

Zambia National Broadcasting Corp ^ | 01/27/2016 | ZNBC

[JimRed]

“Sorry, honey, but the gub’mint is MAKIN’ me do it! Yeah, she is a little on the young side, and kind’a pretty, but...”

[MamaTexan]

LOL! No kidding! As much as I adore the one I have, I wouldn’t wish two spouses of any kind on anybody. :-)

[I want the USA back]

This cannot work. The number of boys and girls born is almost equal.

[JimRed]

It simply is unworkable, because the male to female ratio always hovers near 1-to-1...

When the male death rate is much higher due to hunting misfortunes, accidents and fighting it skews the ratio. Those societies are the ones which typically engage in polygamy.

[Organic Panic]

What better way to celebrate diversity than inviting this mi dset and people in to your country by the millions.

[Secret Agent Man]

Closest to hell a man can get here.

[GOPJ]

If they’re not aborting half the men it means this sicko culture will be intentionally creating surplus men... Men who will become the miserable storm troopers of the cult.

Evil people.

[varyouga]

Shortage of men due to the war.

And most of those men left are likely wealthier than average.

So the idea here is to get wealthier men to have 2+ wives and kids instead of running around single.

Makes sense for the survival of a nation

[varyouga]

“I would have to think about it. When they say hard labor... just how hard?”

Lmao

Hard labor in ERITREA. That’s how hard

[dsrtsage]

Shortage of males? Looks like their wat wasn’t thorough enough

[US_MilitaryRules]

I would imagine that China will have a 2 men and 1 woman marriages soon .

[posterchild]

Yeah, 2 wives is only the fantasy of single men.

[DoughtyOne]

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[FateAmenableToChange]

because I was also curious, from wikipedia: The undemarcated border with Ethiopia is the primary external issue currently facing Eritrea. Eritrea’s relations with Ethiopia turned from that of cautious mutual tolerance, following the 30-year war for Eritrean independence, to a deadly rivalry that led to the outbreak of hostilities from May 1998 to June 2000 which claimed approximately 70,000 casualties from both sides.

[Albion Wilde]

As abhorrent as it may be to those of us who cherish Western values, what the Eritreans are doing might actually be a reasonable approach, at least for them.

It will improve life by at least 50% for the wives who usually "have a headache."

[Albion Wilde]

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I saw this story this morning, so I asked an Eritrean coworker (now a U.S. citizen) about it today. He told me that it is total nonsense, and that Eritrea still has laws against bigamy. Apparently this load of crap was invented by a Somali and published in Arabic media.

Sorry to disappoint all of you. Everything you see on the Internet is not true.

[aimhigh]

Good to know.