polygyny
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To compensate for the disappearance of so many young men, who were the laborers most preferred by plantation owners, many African ethnic groups adopted polygyny, allowing men to take multiple wives.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
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
While the tomb reveals evidence of polygyny - men having children with multiple women - it also shows that polyandry was also widespread: women having children with multiple men.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2021
Unlike polygyny, where one man is married to multiple women, most polyamorists aren’t motived by religion.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2013
The reason for this is not only the economic one just mentioned, but that everywhere the sexes are relatively equal in numbers, and therefore it is impossible for polygyny to become a widespread general custom.
From Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Charles A. (Charles Abram) Ellwood
