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Originally Posted by preciousjeni
On that note, entirely overlooking any moral issues people have with polygamy, I'm curious what the effect would be of legalizing this form of marriage. We've discussed it before on GC, but those forums always polarize and then dissolve.
I'm thinking, for example, with medical insurance, if you put multiple wives/husbands on your plan, it would just cost more.
I understand that we aren't set up to handle multiple partners in a marriage, so there would have to be some adjustments to handle things like sudden death with no will (i.e. who gets first dibs).
It just doesn't seem that difficult to accommodate the change. They're finagling it anyway. Why not impose some regulations to enforce protection of the multiple wives/husbands?
Rhetorical questions...no derailing intended.
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Interesting points. I've never thought of the implications because, quite frankly, I don't plan on being a polygamist, bigamist, or any other type of -ist.
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