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Argument: Polygamy reduces the impulse to adultery and resulting divorces
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- "Why not Mr. and Mrs. - & Mrs... & Mrs...?". The Jerusalem Post. Apr 2, 2006 - "Since so many monogamous relationships don't work and betrayal fuels bitterness and spite, polygamy may be the ideal solution to Jewish continuity and bring about a drop in the divorce rate. One of the rules in a polygamous marriage could be that when a husband and wife are angry at each other they don't have to rant and rave or say hurtful things they might regret. She would simply retire to her room to cool off - or unburden her heart to one of the other women in the household - and he could do the same."
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- Divorce more dangerous to families than polygamy
- Polygamy has existed in Utah side by side with monogamy for nearly 160 years, with no demonstrable injury to the institution of marriage. The state does not punish fornication, or adultery for that matter, and specifically allows "no-fault divorce" which is undoubtedly destructive to families and to marriage as an institution. A man can practice "serial polygamy" with impunity. He can legally have as many wives as he wants, and have children with all of them, just as long as he is willing, with the state's permission if not its blessing, to destroy one family before beginning the next one."