I'm perfectly fine with polygamous marriages. As long as all the adults involved consent, what's the issue?
I think that if the government ever did consider moving this type of marriages to a legal status on par with marriages involving two people, they would quickly find the territory full of landmines in respect to benefits, legal rights, insurance, and so on. Plus, there would be reduced barriers to preventing marriages where the sole intent of the marriage is to fraduently gain benefits from the government.
Companies may stop giving health insurance benefits to employees. Right now, they have to cover maybe two adults, plus some number of kids (which are cheaper to cover). What if they had to cover four adults, plus kids?
These problems may be surmountable ... but the issues are certainly going to be different, going from a marriage composed of merely two people, to a marriage composed of many.
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I think that if the government ever did consider moving this type of marriages to a legal status on par with marriages involving two people, they would quickly find the territory full of landmines in respect to benefits, legal rights, insurance, and so on. Plus, there would be reduced barriers to preventing marriages where the sole intent of the marriage is to fraduently gain benefits from the government.
Companies may stop giving health insurance benefits to employees. Right now, they have to cover maybe two adults, plus some number of kids (which are cheaper to cover). What if they had to cover four adults, plus kids?
These problems may be surmountable ... but the issues are certainly going to be different, going from a marriage composed of merely two people, to a marriage composed of many.