Photo credit: economist.com Mohammad Golam Sarwar It was not Islam that had initiated polygamy rather polygamy was the widespread customary practice in pre-Islamic Arabia which continued in the later ages […]
Source: Indonesia Expat A seminar promoting polygamy in Indonesia is to go ahead, despite the event’s registration form being pulled offline following complaints by women’s rights activists. If you’re weary […]
By Wee Kek Koon Taking concubines was common in China, Hong Kong and Singapore until the mid-20th century. The children of principal and minor wives had a different status By […]
By Harmeet Kaur (CNN) A law effectively decriminalizing bigamy, when two people marry while at least one of them is already legally married, is now in effect in Utah. For […]
Source: The Sun The notion that “African men are polygamous in nature” is an excuse often used to justify the infidelity of menfolk in marriage in African societies. That […]
by Kyla Sommers Kyla Sommers is the editor of the History News Network. Sarah M. S. Pearsall teaches the history of early America and the Atlantic world at […]
By Farhan Iqbal, Imam Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Canada Marriage is a sacred institution in Islam with very important objectives. In most cases, the objective is achieved through monogamy. However, in […]
Prominent women’s rights activist Marina Mahathir says there is a disconnect between what Muslim women expect and what happens in real life By Tashny Sukumaran A whopping 70 per cent […]
Source: Associated Press By SAMY MAGDY CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s top Muslim cleric has stirred up controversy after saying that polygamy is an “injustice” for women, but stopped short of […]
Source: Religion News Service By Tonny Onyulo NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Sipping black coffee outside his house in Kibera, a slum district here, James Oketch comes up with as many […]
Source: Associated Press By RODNEY MUHUMUZA KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The suspicion of a third wife was planted in Irene Atenyo’s mind when her husband could not account for his […]
Balance of evidence indicates we are biologically inclined towards monogamy Thu, Oct 4, 2018, William Reville The dominant male in a gorilla group services a harem, hogging all the […]
Source: The Guardian Former bishops of breakaway Mormon sect avoid jail over offences spanning decades Reuters Winston Blackmore, convicted for marrying 24 women, outside a British Columbia court in 2017. […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Nate Carlisle Rose believed God would punish her for leaving her family in the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. That […]
Source: The Globe and Mail GEMMA KARSTENS-SMITH Two men convicted of practising polygamy in British Columbia were motivated by “sincerely held religious beliefs,” but their sentences should include jail time […]
Source: CBC News A judge in British Columbia has ruled that Canada’s polygamy laws are constitutional, rejecting the argument from two B.C. polygamists who claimed the law violated their charter […]
Source: Associated Press CRANBROOK, British Columbia (AP) — A Canadian man found guilty of marrying two dozen women says he believed he was entitled to practice polygamy because he wasn’t […]
Source: The Telegraph By Shelina Janmohamed Secondwife.com now has 100,000 users I’m not a second wife, and I have no plans to ever be one. There is only really one reason […]
Source: The Guardian A new Tinder-like dating app for wannabe polygamists is courting controversy in Indonesia. Photograph: ayopoligami.com BY Kate Lamb in Jakarta A new Tinder-like dating app for wannabe polygamists is […]
