I'd like to hear your experience in this if you care to share it. How did it break up, how has it affected you children, and you. This is a very relative subject today; for X-COG and the world around us.

I have heard from a friend and woman Bishop in Russia that the Russian Parliament is considering making it legal, as "Every one has a mistress, why not make her legal". The French, it seems has created their own monster and in Africa it is a hot debate, especially in the Church. The women who have 5-10 kids want the help. They get little if any from their husbands. They often work and support the family with the youngest child tied to their backs.

The un-married with the perspective of being sold (yes, sold for a bride price) into these marriages with older men and other wives, and thrown out women, don't like it and see the problems from another point of view.

The Northern Islamic communities have little respect for women and want what they want. They brutally circumcise their girls. I know some of these women from all of these groups. I was at a discussion with over 100 ministers, mostly women themselves from Africa, Russia, Romania, China and So. America and the subject of Polygamy came up. It's a brutal sore in many ways and the women carry the burden of it. The discussion was not "How can we stop it", it is! And that's another subject. The discussion was "What can we do to protect the women and children who are the victims".

Often the OT is used to justify it, but I can not find one case where the women; Sarah, Haggar, Katurah, Rachel, Leah, Bilha, Zilpa, Hannah, were not, in reality, grieved by one aspect or another of polygamy.