Sharing husband could boost family health and wealth!

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Sharing husband could boost family health and wealth!
By IANS
Published: October 29, 2015
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Most countries around the globe ban or restrict marriages to more than one spouse at a time. PHOTO: DESIFREETV

NEW YORK: Polygyny – where one husband has more wives than one – may not be as bad as it is often made out to be. New research has found that the practice of sharing a husband may, in some circumstances, lead to greater health and wealth for women and their children.

Most countries around the globe ban or restrict marriages to more than one spouse at a time. And polygyny is decried by the United Nations Human Rights Commission and women’s rights organisations as discriminatory to women.

For the study, the researchers compared polygynous and monogamous households in 56 villages in northern Tanzania, where polygyny is widespread among certain ethnic groups, including the Maasai.

Emotional attachment to work good for your health

When comparing households within individual villages, polygynous households often had better access to food and healthier children. Polygynous households also owned more cattle and farmed more land than monogamous households.

These findings support evolutionary anthropological accounts of marriage indicating that polygyny can be in a woman’s strategic interest when women depend on men for resources.

“If you have a choice of a guy who has 180 cows, lots of land and other wives, it might be better for you to marry him rather than a guy who has no wives, three cows and one acre,” said one of the researchers Monique Borgerhoff Mulder from University of California, Davis in the US.

The research highlight the importance of local context in studying the health implications of cultural practices, and suggest that in some settings, prohibiting polygyny could be disadvantageous to women by restricting their marriage options.

Angry women lose influence

“The issue is not the number of partners,” Borgerhoff Mulder said. ”Women should be assured the autonomy to make the decisions they want,” she pointed out.

Tanzania faces a high burden of food insecurity and malnutrition. Previous research showed that nearly 60 percent of Tanzanian Maasai children experience stunting.

“Our study suggests that highly polygynous, predominantly Maasai, villages do poorly not because of polygyny, but because of vulnerability to drought, low service provision and broader socio-political disadvantages,” lead author of the study David Lawson from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine explained.

The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


Sharing husband could boost family health and wealth! - The Express Tribune


@Ifrit @Bilal9 @vsdoc @jamahir @waz

 

[Carach Angren]

Having one wife is bad enough, why'd I want another? Does any married man really want another wife? If you want health benefits, get a mistress and watch the "stress" go away, other than that adding another wife is asking for an early death.

If you want wealth don't get married.

 

[Bilal9]

Having one wife is bad enough, why'd I want another? Does any married man really want another wife? If you want health benefits, get a mistress and watch the "stress" go away, other than that adding another wife is asking for an early death.

If you want wealth don't get married.

I think you're mistaking the situation in South Asia with Scandinavian countries.

Although I'll be labeled as a misogynist for saying this - feminists have succeeded in legally emasculating first world men to a completely uneven situation where women have an unfair upper hand. That is why husbands in the first world stay married out of fear of financial loss (losing half of one's property), which is a hypocrisy. There is no love left in most Western marriages.

In South Asian countries - divorce typically means separation, good luck trying to collect alimony or child-support. That being said - wealthy people are nice enough to provide it - out of fear of a bad reputation in society. If you can't afford alimony and/or child-support, no one will force you to provide it. The laws are there in books only....

And there is no splitting property in half like in the US. Men keep their property.

Also - wealthy men in South Asia these days almost always have one or two all-expenses-paid secret mistresses. The foreign trips and vacations are had with mistresses and not the wife.

Wives exist as a convenient wholesome face-saving measure in order to have needed offspring.

 

[Arya Desa]

Having one wife is bad enough, why'd I want another? Does any married man really want another wife? If you want health benefits, get a mistress and watch the "stress" go away, other than that adding another wife is asking for an early death.

If you want wealth don't get married.

A wife can make a man a millionaire


























If he started off a billionaire.

 

[CHN Bamboo]

While recently a Chinese profession is advocating polyandry……

 

[Indos]

Having one wife is bad enough, why'd I want another? Does any married man really want another wife? If you want health benefits, get a mistress and watch the "stress" go away, other than that adding another wife is asking for an early death.

If you want wealth don't get married.

Managing women can improve our leadership skills ..............

 

[vsdoc]

@Ifrit @Bilal9 @vsdoc @jamahir @waz

Apparently me coming out in my shorts to sit on the steps early morning with my coffee and newspaper (and now smartphone, since the signal is better) is creating quite a furore among some of my wife's hoity toity upper crust early morning patients.

Life is full of possibilities.

Both in and out of your shorts. (signature line patent pending)

 

[surya kiran]

Ooooo we need to bring in @Akheilos in here!

 

[Rajkumar]

Having one wife is bad enough, why'd I want another? Does any married man really want another wife? If you want health benefits, get a mistress and watch the "stress" go away, other than that adding another wife is asking for an early death.

If you want wealth don't get married.

i think i found my wing man

 

[vsdoc]

Nothing more irritating than opening your wallet when you have to pay someone for something, and finding it empty (or near empty of large notes). Your wife having dipped into it for ready cash. Leaving barely enough for a decent cup of tea.

When I sometimes do the same into one of her one million purses (what an exercise it is to find hard cash in those mile deep bags .....) I get major sounds of oohs and aaahs and mama's from the watching kids.

Life sucks.

 

[nair]

Nothing more irritating than opening your wallet when you have to pay someone for something, and finding it empty (or near empty of large notes). Your wife having dipped into it for ready cash. Leaving barely enough for a decent cup of tea.

When I sometimes do the same into one of her one million purses (what an exercise it is to find hard cash in those mile deep bags .....) I get major sounds of oohs and aaahs and mama's from the watching kids.

Life sucks.

Older generation!!!!!!!! Only keep change in your purse, new gen istyle.......

 

[vsdoc]

Older generation!!!!!!!! Only keep change in your purse, new gen istyle.......

Man how do you pay with just change? Run to an ATM?

Or that fancy phone thing?

Please man. Nothing generational about it.

I fill 100 bucks fuel in my Bullet and find teners and twenties floating inside, where I distinctly remember a few lose hundreds, maybe even a 500.

Worse if she (or son) has taken my card.

I cannot describe my feelings then.

 

[Audio]

I cannot describe my feelings then.

I laughed real hard at your posts in this thread.

If i was to make my amateurish psychologic assesment, i'd say you failed at setting boundaries -especially with the son (coming into your wallet uncontrolled is a big nono-at least from where i'm sitting) and with the wife, idk what kind of arrangement you have, financially speaking (do you give her some allowance and then she comes to take some more?-why she needs allowance, you've told she has patients-meaning she is a doctor) but since you're pretty indiferent to all of it, i'd say you're quite content with all of this, or at least, these spouse shortcomings are alleviated in some other areas.

Oh and that morning furore you mentioned.....idk if you're still young enough to wake up with a hard-on.....if you do...try that coffee in shorts then.

 

[vsdoc]

I laughed real hard at your posts in this thread.

If i was to make my amateurish psychologic assesment, i'd say you failed at setting boundaries -especially with the son (coming into your wallet uncontrolled is a big nono-at least from where i'm sitting) and with the wife, idk what kind of arrangement you have, financially speaking (do you give her some allowance and then she comes to take some more?-why she needs allowance, you've told she has patients-meaning she is a doctor) but since you're pretty indiferent to all of it, i'd say you're quite content with all of this, or at least, these spouse shortcomings are alleviated in some other areas.

The son is a good boy. Most responsible about money unlike so many young men his age. Just that he's a bit of a dreamer, and forgets to return/put back the card after using it (always with my permission).

The wife .... well, she's a wife. An Indian wife. I have very little experience with wives of other nationalities.

As wives that is .....

 

[Joe Shearer]

Sharing husband could boost family health and wealth!
By IANS
Published: October 29, 2015
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Most countries around the globe ban or restrict marriages to more than one spouse at a time. PHOTO: DESIFREETV

NEW YORK: Polygyny – where one husband has more wives than one – may not be as bad as it is often made out to be. New research has found that the practice of sharing a husband may, in some circumstances, lead to greater health and wealth for women and their children.

Most countries around the globe ban or restrict marriages to more than one spouse at a time. And polygyny is decried by the United Nations Human Rights Commission and women’s rights organisations as discriminatory to women.

For the study, the researchers compared polygynous and monogamous households in 56 villages in northern Tanzania, where polygyny is widespread among certain ethnic groups, including the Maasai.

Emotional attachment to work good for your health

When comparing households within individual villages, polygynous households often had better access to food and healthier children. Polygynous households also owned more cattle and farmed more land than monogamous households.

These findings support evolutionary anthropological accounts of marriage indicating that polygyny can be in a woman’s strategic interest when women depend on men for resources.

“If you have a choice of a guy who has 180 cows, lots of land and other wives, it might be better for you to marry him rather than a guy who has no wives, three cows and one acre,” said one of the researchers Monique Borgerhoff Mulder from University of California, Davis in the US.

The research highlight the importance of local context in studying the health implications of cultural practices, and suggest that in some settings, prohibiting polygyny could be disadvantageous to women by restricting their marriage options.

Angry women lose influence

“The issue is not the number of partners,” Borgerhoff Mulder said. ”Women should be assured the autonomy to make the decisions they want,” she pointed out.

Tanzania faces a high burden of food insecurity and malnutrition. Previous research showed that nearly 60 percent of Tanzanian Maasai children experience stunting.

“Our study suggests that highly polygynous, predominantly Maasai, villages do poorly not because of polygyny, but because of vulnerability to drought, low service provision and broader socio-political disadvantages,” lead author of the study David Lawson from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine explained.

The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


Sharing husband could boost family health and wealth! - The Express Tribune


@Ifrit @Bilal9 @vsdoc @jamahir @waz

Yes, yes!!