Why is polygamy bad

Congress sought to close the distinction again in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of , but that legislation was declared unconstitutional in City of Boerne v. Flores The exact status of the distinction is now not clear. While the 19th century cases on polygamy were originally directed toward the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , the arrival of many new cultures engaging in this marital practice may yet again force the Court to confront not only whether banning it violates the free exercise of religion but also if proscribing monogamy is an endorsement of specific religious belief.

In recent years, individuals have continued to challenge or defend themselves from state laws criminalizing polygamy. In State v. The U. Supreme Court denied review. Some Supreme Court decisions relative to the right of privacy could provide a basis for liberalizing laws relative to polygamy, at least in cases where all individuals involved entered the relationships knowingly and consensually.

The raid in Texas on a polygamous sect suggests that the issue over polygamy and the First Amendment may continue well into the 21st century. This article was originally published in Constitution, the Supreme Court, and money, politics, and the First Amendment. Schultz, David. David Schultz, — New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Your donation will be tax-deductible. Highlights Print Post. Category: Marriage , Public Policy.

But McDermott suggests that another factor is at work: Polygynist cultures need to create and sustain an underclass of unmarried and undereducated men, since in order to sustain a system where a few men possess all the women, roughly half of boys must leave the community before adulthood.

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Carroll and Lyman Stone. Fertility , Marriage , Coronavirus. Marriage , Coronavirus. Public Policy , Parents. First Name. Last Name. Email Address. Institute for Family Studies P. Box Charlottesville, VA michael ifstudies. While bare, dehydrated, and rootless trees reflect feelings of powerlessness and helplessness Mizuta et al. Several limitations of this study should be acknowledged. First, the sample was composed exclusively of Israeli Muslim Arab women who were in contact with the social services.

Future studies should be conducted in polygamous families from other cultures and among well-functioning families to enable generalization. Using additional research methods such as in-depth interviews or self-report questionnaires could extend the conclusions.

Nevertheless, despite these limitations, the results shed light on the disturbing reality of isolation and despair of Arab women in polygamous families in the current sample. They also revealed the mechanisms that women employ to bypass their distress, such as parentification, creating a separate family unit, creating revenge fantasies, and seeking justice and dissociation.

Nevertheless, some women exhibited strengths and expressed hopes of thriving. The datasets presented in this article are not readily available because ethical consideration. Requests to access the datasets should be directed to the second author.

FG conducted the drawing tasks and narrative collection. Both authors analyzed the drawings and narratives and were involved in writing the article. The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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