Comment & Debate
“The Case for Polygamy”. Time. May 10th, 1968 – “Polygamy was common among the ancient Jews, he points out, and in the marriage laws of Moses, the word wife “is used regularly with reference to marriage cases which may be either polygamous or monogamous.
Nor does polygamy violate the concept of ‘one flesh.’ Just as ‘the several children of one mother may be regarded as ‘one flesh’ with her by reason of their unity in generation and maternal love,’ he writes, ‘in a socially valid polygamous marriage a man may be conjugally united with each of his wives respectively, since each does become with him ‘one flesh.'”