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To: Lane3 who wrote (28675)	2/9/2004 8:18:53 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793955

We'd have to add a couple of lines on the IRS forms. <g> It would be a nuisance, but easily doable. But why should we be doing this at all. We already have a cultural system that works. If the Europeans want to tear it all down and write it again using a Humanistic creed, then why don't we let them perform the grand experiment and we'll see how it turns out.

To: Lane3 who wrote (28675)	2/9/2004 8:26:03 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793955

Even before you try rejiggering every law that was written for one husband and one wife to deal with the case of one husband and two or three or more wives (and hey, there would be no grounds to outlaw polyandry, either, right?) and their respective children and property rights, you would have a very noticeable effect on the customs of this country. Today a man must be quite wealthy to afford ditching the first wife and acquiring a trophy wife. But if he can just marry the second without ditching the first, that's quite a threat to hang over the first wife's head, isn't it? I wonder if taking a second wife would become grounds for divorce? an easy way to secure a divorce if you don't want to initiate the suit. I think you will find that the social position of women is always worse in countries where polygamy is commonly practiced, than where it is not.