Children: The Innocent Victims of Polygamy Essay -- plural marriage, do

Many people would happily accept an opportunity to have their daily stress reduced by employing help with not only their children but also with daily household responsibilities of cooking and cleaning. Especially in this fragile economic state the average family living in America cannot afford the luxury of hiring a house cleaner, cook or nanny. However, there are polygamists families in America have the abilities of multiple adults contributing to the same household because of the lifestyle choice of having multiple spouses. The extra help comes at a price for woman, by having to share her husband with other woman and raising her children in the difficult and uncommon lifestyle. Polygamy takes a total acceptance and understanding of it by the mothers, in order for polygamy not to have a negative psychological impact on her children. Children are the innocent victims of polygamy; consequently, they grow up witnessing a tense environment filled with their mother’s insecurities and rivalries with the other wives, which sequentially end up harming the child in the end. Furthermore, polygamy can be psychologically damaging to children because of the increased rates of not only welfare fraud, domestic violence, and underage marriages but also child abuse and neglect. â€Å"Polygamy is defined as a marriage in which a spouse of either gender has more than one mate at the same time. Polygamy is considered a valid form of marriage in many countries and communities around the globe† (Al-Krenawi). However, polygamy is illegal in the United States. Those who practice polygamy in America can only be â€Å"legally† married to one spouse; therefore, the subsequent spouses in a polygamist relationship hold a â€Å"singl... ... Palestinian Case." International Journal Of Social Psychiatry 58.1 (2012): 79-95. Academic Search Complete. Web. 20 Nov. 2013. Kilbride, Phillipe Leroy, and Ãâ€"zer, Ali, Fatma Ãâ€"zlem Orhan, and Hasan Çetin Ekerbià §er. "Sociodemographic Variables And Depression In Turkish Women From Polygamous Versus Monogamous Families." Health Care For Women International 34.11 (2013): 1024-1034. Academic Search Complete. Web. 20 Nov. 2013. Page, Douglas. Plural Marriage for Our Times: A Reinvented Option. 2nd ed. California: Praeger, 2013. Print. Polygamy. Histats. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2013. Polyggamy FAQs. Polygamy.org. TM, n.d. Web. 20 Nov. 2013. White, Ryan. â€Å"Two Sides Of Polygamy.† Utah Law Review 2009.2 (2009): 495-502. Academic Search Complete. Web. 10 Nov. 2013. Children: The Innocent Victims of Polygamy Essay -- plural marriage, do Many people would happily accept an opportunity to have their daily stress reduced by employing help with not only their children but also with daily household responsibilities of cooking and cleaning. Especially in this fragile economic state the average family living in America cannot afford the luxury of hiring a house cleaner, cook or nanny. However, there are polygamists families in America have the abilities of multiple adults contributing to the same household because of the lifestyle choice of having multiple spouses. The extra help comes at a price for woman, by having to share her husband with other woman and raising her children in the difficult and uncommon lifestyle. Polygamy takes a total acceptance and understanding of it by the mothers, in order for polygamy not to have a negative psychological impact on her children. Children are the innocent victims of polygamy; consequently, they grow up witnessing a tense environment filled with their mother’s insecurities and rivalries with the other wives, which sequentially end up harming the child in the end. Furthermore, polygamy can be psychologically damaging to children because of the increased rates of not only welfare fraud, domestic violence, and underage marriages but also child abuse and neglect. â€Å"Polygamy is defined as a marriage in which a spouse of either gender has more than one mate at the same time. Polygamy is considered a valid form of marriage in many countries and communities around the globe† (Al-Krenawi). However, polygamy is illegal in the United States. Those who practice polygamy in America can only be â€Å"legally† married to one spouse; therefore, the subsequent spouses in a polygamist relationship hold a â€Å"singl... ... Palestinian Case." International Journal Of Social Psychiatry 58.1 (2012): 79-95. Academic Search Complete. Web. 20 Nov. 2013. Kilbride, Phillipe Leroy, and Ãâ€"zer, Ali, Fatma Ãâ€"zlem Orhan, and Hasan Çetin Ekerbià §er. "Sociodemographic Variables And Depression In Turkish Women From Polygamous Versus Monogamous Families." Health Care For Women International 34.11 (2013): 1024-1034. Academic Search Complete. Web. 20 Nov. 2013. Page, Douglas. Plural Marriage for Our Times: A Reinvented Option. 2nd ed. California: Praeger, 2013. Print. Polygamy. Histats. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2013. Polyggamy FAQs. Polygamy.org. TM, n.d. Web. 20 Nov. 2013. White, Ryan. â€Å"Two Sides Of Polygamy.† Utah Law Review 2009.2 (2009): 495-502. Academic Search Complete. Web. 10 Nov. 2013.