Marriage Family Kinship

Marriage Family Kinship
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In most parts of the world, having more than one spouse is generally accepted. The legality of this kind of marriage arrangements ties to the religious, cultural and sometime the legislations that have been set out in the constitution. In reality, most of the societies do not support the arrangement where one woman has more than one husband. However on the contrary, the men have the liberty to marry more than one wife. While the legality and the norms may be argued, there are benefits that can come from such unions. Specifically there are economic benefits that can be reaped from the marriage arrangements that are foreign in the normal setups.
In the countryside, where the families have large tracks of land, such families are economically viable due to the fact that they are a source of cheap and effective labour. Where all of the partners are earnings a living, depending on the number in the union and the amount of...