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Quote by: tinybear In the United States, women outnumber men by over 70 million. So what do you say to those women who end up without husbands? |
I don't know where you got that statistic, but there are about 6 million more women than men in the US as of 2003 according to the official census
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFPeople?_sse=on) as of 2003. The reason that bigamy and polygamy are illegal under law is that by law, marriage is a contractual agreement between two parties which afford parties certain financial benefits and legal rights. If polygamy were made legal, we would most likely see abuse of this system. What people do in private is up to them, but if the state is going to recognize marriages at all (open to debate), it makes sense for them to recognize only monogamous marriages.