Comment on moms rule
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 day agoYou don’t just “have many redundant wives”. It starts out roughly 50/50 no matter what you do.
You either have more women by having a lot of single men, or a lot of dead men, or by taking women from other places.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes I mentioned that earlier in the thread. Polygyny = some men have many wives, others have none.
Comment105@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
Which does nothing to help with the issue of mothers dying from pregnancy, unless there’s something more that you know?
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Multiple wives => redundant wives. Solves the issue of mothers dying in pregnancy. The more wives you have, the more you expect to survive to be able to care for the children. Having only one wife, on the other hand, means all your eggs are in one basket (apologies)!
Comment105@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
There is no such thing as redundant wives in a total sense.
There’s only kidnapped wives, or dead or single men. That’s the only way you get a relative surplus. The amount of women remains the same whether you do polygyny or not.