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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even beyond any religious objections, polygamy is not a victimless crime. The laws against bigamy protect the first wife, who could lose most of the benefits and security of marriage without her consent. [/quote]
If someone is victimized there are already laws in place to protect them.  What [i]benefits [/i]would be stolen from the first wife?  How would her [i]security[/i] be jeopardized?[/quote]

Seriously? Marriage is a contract with shared benefits and responsibilities. The wife's share of the family property, retirement, and assets would be jeopardized, as would her children's share of support from the father, if he can just keep adding more wives and children. In most of these cases, the women do not earn much income on their own and are dependent on their husbands. The wives are only getting married once. It is the husbands who have multiple marriages. [/quote]

OK, but you do understand that in no way do our current laws protect women from this problem in divorce and remarriage, right? [/quote]
There is also no protection from either spouse going out and having affairs.  Either spouse having children with someone else, or either spouse spending money frivolously on others.  And as you said, it's a contract, so the fist wife could always add language to the contract to add whatever protections she deems appropriate.[/quote]

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