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Should Israel Restore Polygyny?
Yes 50%  50%  [ 5 ]
No 20%  20%  [ 2 ]
Just show the results 30%  30%  [ 3 ]
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YippySkippy
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26 Jul 2012, 9:21 am

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1. A man with multiple wives can produce a lot more children than a woman with multiple husbands as >>90% can only bear 1 child at a time.

2. Without modern paternity testing technology, polyandry makes it impossible to keep track of who's related who.


1. Not everyone wants a hundred kids.
2. Paternity testing exists. Why are you pretending it doesn't? Besides, in polygamous households all the women are considered mothers to all the children. If roles were reversed, all the men would be fathers.



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26 Jul 2012, 9:39 pm

Polyandry would run counter to Jewish prohibitions against adultery, and against coveting one's neighbor's wife/wives.

So, Israel probably wouldn't go in for it.



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27 Jul 2012, 10:55 am

YippySkippy wrote:
Ireland used to have the same problem (sorry, I know I always bring Ireland into everything!). In their case, it was caused by a combination of high male emigration and mamma's-boy syndrome - a lot of guys just stayed on the family farm their whole lives and never established their own home or family.


Perhaps if polygyny passes in Israel, some Irish lasses would convert and emigrate? :wink:

After all, in an alphabetically-ordered list of countries, Israel is right there behind Ireland.



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27 Jul 2012, 11:18 am

ruveyn wrote:
In a society concerned with paternal identity that will fly like a lead balloon. If Mrs gets pregnant, then who is the father.


Israeli society is concerned with paternal identity? That's new to me... I was told that child with a Jewish mother is considered Jewish, a child with only a Jewish father is not considered Jewish. This seems to make marrying a non-Jewish woman problematic or Jews. I guess that's a bit counter intuitive in a patriarchal society. Supposedly they made this rule because they could never be sure who Mrs got pregnant by... (but maybe the guy who told me this made the last bit up/was being sarcastic)