polygamous

Although family reunification has represented a principal route to legal residence in France for African migrants since the 1970s, the recent prohibition of once tacitly accepted polygamous unions has generated conflicts and gender-based strategic responses as polygamously married women and men seek to retain legal status.

(141) Interestingly, in Babylonian Talmud Ketubot 62a, when the same Rabbi Judah's daughter-in-law became too old to have children after his son finally came back from his studies, he was hesitant to tell his son to marry another woman polygamously, lest "it would be said: The latter is his wife and the other his mistress." Perhaps this is an early reflection of a trend that we will see again later in history, wherein polygamy is allowed when there is a mitzvah (positive commandment) to do so (because technically the law allows it and the rabbis' moral compunction was not enough to override a commandment), despite the fact that it was otherwise frowned upon as somewhat immoral or something to be socially ashamed of.

"Each player in a cricket team, especially one that now embraces central contracts, so they are thrown together for longer periods than they ever are with their families (this winter, I have been told by one member of the support staff that, from the moment he leaves for Sri Lanka next month until he returns from New Zealand at the end of March, he will spend precisely 10 days at home), is in effect wedded polygamously to the other members of the team.