This guest column is from Carol Lynn Pearson, author of “The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy,” reacting to the 2025 curriculum for children of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In contrast, resource-defense polygamy, where one sex -- usually but not always the male -- guards territories to attract mates, is highly unstable and often reverts to monogamy. "This research ...

Candidly explaining Mormonism’s complicated experience with polygamy to adults requires nuance, context and care. Introducing it to children can be even trickier, if not nearly impossible.

In the past, Chechen authorities voiced support for legalizing polygamy in Russia. In 2015, Magomed Daudov, a close associate of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, described polygamy as a ...

Russia’s top Islamic authority reversed its decision to permit marriage between a man and multiple women after law enforcement authorities said the ruling violated the law. The Ulama Council of ...

The decision comes after widespread criticism on social media and from officials, who pointed out that Russian law prohibits polygamy. Russia's top Islamic body has withdrawn a contentious ...

Russia’s Muslim Spiritual Administration’s Ulema Council (an advisory body of Muslim scholars) has withdrawn a fatwa permitting religious polygamy, reported RIA Novosti. The decision follows a formal ...

These changes include reforms on marriage age, legal guardianship, polygamy, divorce procedures, alimony, property transfer, custody, and inheritance. Ouahbi said that “the contents of the ...

The draft code proposes more than 100 amendments, including one which allows women to stipulate opposition to polygamy in a marriage contract, justice minister Abdellatif Ouahbi told reporters.

There, until Green drew attention to himself by promoting polygamy on national TV talk-shows, the family lived in obscurity. Working on a rota system, meals are served in shifts by "sister-wives ...