{"id":66,"date":"2006-03-31T11:54:45","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T16:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2006-07-18T04:17:11","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T09:17:11","slug":"polygamy-yet-another-link-pilfered-from-sullivans-daily-dish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Polygamy &#8211; yet another link pilfered from Sullivan&#8217;s Daily Dish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A new television program will soon be showing an apparently happy polygamous family. If, one might ask, if gay marriages are OK why not marriages with multiple partners? <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nationaljournal.com\/rauch.htm\"><strong>A very thoughtful article<\/strong><\/a><strong> on the <em>why nots<\/em> starting with all the men who won&#8217;t get wives. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;The problem in China and India is sex-selective abortion (and sometimes infanticide), not polygamy; where the marriage market is concerned, however, the two are functional equivalents. In their book, Hudson and den Boer note that &#8220;bare branches are more likely than other males to turn to vice and violence.&#8221; To get ahead, they &#8220;may turn to appropriation of resources, using force if necessary.&#8221; Such men are ripe for recruitment by gangs, and in groups they &#8220;exhibit even more exaggerated risky and violent behavior.&#8221; The result is &#8220;a significant increase in societal, and possibly intersocietal, violence.&#8221; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Crime rates, according to the authors, tend to be higher in polygynous societies. Worse, &#8220;high-sex-ratio societies are governable only by authoritarian regimes capable of suppressing violence at home and exporting it abroad through colonization or war.&#8221; In medieval Portugal, &#8220;the regime would send bare branches on foreign adventures of conquest and colonization.&#8221; (An equivalent today may be jihad.) In 19th-century China, where as many as 25 percent of men were unable to marry, &#8220;these young men became natural recruits for bandit gangs and local militia,&#8221; which nearly toppled the government. In what is now Taiwan, unattached males fomented regular revolts and became &#8220;entrepreneurs of violence.&#8221; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>This sounds a lot like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.ca\/child\/news\/view.php?load=arcview&#038;article=1625&#038;c=Chidren%20News\">what&#8217;s happening in much of sub-saharan Africa today.<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.ca\/child\/news\/view.php?load=arcview&#038;article=1625&#038;c=Chidren%20News\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new television program will soon be showing an apparently happy polygamous family. If, one might ask, if gay marriages are OK why not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}