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Example sentences for: polygamy

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This is basically a covert, and mild, form of polygamy: High-status males get to monopolize more than one fertile woman.
But serial monogamy has a big downside not shared by polygamy: Lots of kids get reared either without fathers or with stepfathers, who often lack the Darwinian devotion of a biological father--and who may even be downright hostile.
That includes the Indians, the coastal fortifications, territorial expansion, the Isthmus Canal, civil-service reform, polygamy, and Prohibition.
Birch, unlike Clinton, had to give a principled answer--"uh, yes"--at which point Will and Bennett dragged her through the sordid exercise of distinguishing gay marriage from polygamy and incest.
To be sure, men may be tempted to philander on the side, even to fall in love with a second woman; they are more inclined than women to both infidelity and polygamy.