polygyny
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While polygyny - the marriage of a man to several women - is allowed in South Africa, such relationships are usually registered as customary marriages and are not celebrated in church.
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
Adult relationships vary in form across societies and include not only the type most common around the world today — heterosexual monogamy — but also same-sex marriage, nonmarital unions, polyamory, polygyny and polyandry.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022
In resourced-based polygyny, males compete for territories with the best resources, and then mate with females that enter the territory, drawn to its resource richness.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Some scholars suspect that polygyny may discourage paternal investment.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2012
In the first place, as we have already seen, polygyny is essentially an institution of barbarism.
From Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Ellwood, Charles A. (Charles Abram)
