Polygamy was given to man by God, to be practiced under certain circumstances. But only when he commands it.
But I can understand the past much better than I can the future.
I remember very well a magazine after world war two, a story with the heading ( American women, may we borrow your men? )
The male population of Germany had been so depleted that they were begging for American men.
Boy was i proud to be an American but wishing I was a couple of years older.
The wars between the Israelites and their enemy`s were much worse in terms of percentage of casualties so it would have been impossible for each woman to have her own husband unless polygamy was allowed.
And it was allowed, the founders of the nation from which we get our religion today, (although I personally do not see Christianity as a religion) was established by polygamists.
The people who are putting Polygamy in the same category with that dirty word which was made legal by the supreme court are just letting idealism blind them to reality.
Re read the four patriarchs and reconsider the disastrous effects of those polygamist unions.