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Morals in America are so bad today that I think we should allow polygamous marriage. At least it is a marriage rather than a shack up-usually decribed as a "room mate." However, when the inevitable divorce occurs the law must provide that the husband and the remaining wives must pay spousal and child support to the departing wife. If the male does "the dump" he must pay all wives spousal and child support. If he fails to get job and/or pay a he must be put on a chain gang.

In any case the goal is to try and avoid the plural wives and their kids from swelling the already swollen welfare rolls. Polygamy can only work among a farming or pastoral people. It will not work in an urban environment.

In any case the goal is to try and avoid the plural wives and their kids from swelling the already swollen welfare rolls.

I think it makes much more sense simply to eliminate government welfare payments for everyone, and it's just as possible as passing and enforcing a bunch of specific requirements for the case of legally-recognized polygamy.

Morals in America are so bad today that I think we should allow polygamous marriage. At least it is a marriage rather than a shack up-usually decribed as a "room mate."... In any case the goal is to try and avoid the plural wives and their kids from swelling the already swollen welfare rolls. Polygamy can only work among a farming or pastoral people. It will not work in an urban environment.

Wow! What planet are you from?

You haven't heard of the most rampant polygamy area of this country? Hildale UT @ tip of AZ border -- & just to the south of that border, Colorado City, AZ? And you somehow (mistakingly) thinks this leads to getting kids off the welfare rolls? You have got to be kidding, right?

In 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported that welfare fraud is widespread in both Hildale and Colorado City. As many as half of plural wives are on government assistance. The fraud arises from the women's claims that they do not know the whereabouts of the children's fathers. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildale,_Utah

Oh, and guess what? Hildale-Colorado City are pretty rural -- as in quite isolated rural.