A job is not your life, and is easy to walk away from, so I cannot, off hand, think of anything comparable
I'll decline to mention the specific religion, but there is a religion practiced in the US where I believe the women are treated like chattel. I'm sure they would disagree. And it's a large enough religion that it's virtually certain that someone on the thread belongs to it.
A marriage between a man and a woman does not preclude the woman being treated like chattel. It's only your perception that they are and you find it necessary to protect them from themselves.
Which gets us even farther afield from the question that I asked earlier. How does it effect the well-being of society if polygamy is permitted by law? It exists today, not legal, but it exists. How is society's well being hurt by the mere existance of polygamy? Are you affected in any measurable way. Is the State of Maryland affected in any measurable way?
Furthermore, without a marriage, there is no commingling of assets, so at least the women gets to take out of the arrangement that property which had always belonged to her, including a separate bank account, so it is not necessary to have a court intervene in the division of assets.
If a separate account even exists. But that approach overlooks where the likely bulk of assets exists, in the ownership of the male. The women might like to choose to continue to live together as an extended family, but it's not going to be on the property they've been residing in. They are sent on their marry way.
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