Monogamy vs Polygamy

Infidelity exists. Serial monogamy exists. No-strings liaisons exist. Polyamory exists. Etc. Single mothers exist even with an equal number of men and women. The exact legal nature of marriage is not going to stop any of these. Enormous numbers of people have lived and reproduced without any legal or financial protections at all, including the majority of your ancestors.

You're conflating your personal experience with modern courtship and kinship rituals in a particular society with some sort of universality of human nature. That's a nice way of saying you're wrong.You and all other humans exist because of what you say you believe would "destroy society".Sex wasn't even associated with pregnancy, let alone progeny until fairly recent history. There are existing kinship models where the "husband" is the father of all

This was more or less the purpose of monogamy. If you observe many societies that don’t strongly enforce it, you see that wealthy men end up having tons of wives, while poor men have none.Same situation is happening in America, we just don’t call it polygamy because it has been reduced entirely to the physical act.

It's almost like there were good reasons for strict legal and religious positions on monogamy and marriage for thousands of years all around the globe.Not to say your statement is invalid or that it's time for a shift, just a reminder that this is a well trodden field.

Monogamy isn't just for kids. By ensuring that most men get married, it quells social unrest. In polygamous society, one man gets more women, which causes jealousy, and ultimately social unrest when inequality gets too high. Men without partners are a recipe for societal disaster.

You can't objectively label different cultures as not being advanced just because they're different. There could well be good reasons for enforcing monogamy on people that your society disregards. I'm just guessing here, but maybe no monogamy may end up with a lot of people suffering the natural human emotion of jealousy and perhaps something like most women queuing up to be with the most attractive men, leaving the majority of men without sex their whole lives. Maybe ancient soci

Monogamy is a meme that has been propagated to preserve property rights and rules of inheritance. To make moral judgements of artificial constructs is invalid. Human beings, specifically women, are hypergamous. So the most logical regime is actually one of polyamory and polygamy, rather than monogamy.

Throughout history we've had single marriages, polygamy, second+ marriages, combined families, divorce, matriarchal societies, and patriarchal societies. And there was certainly a time before any kind of marriage at all existed, and it's possible nobody knew who any fathers were. Throughout all of that, the individual is the only common denominator.There is no reason to think that a single marriage is the best format, other than it happens to work well within the framework we'v

A, B, and C have existed in most societies below a certain threshold of per capita wealth, regardless of whether or not polygamy was practiced, so you may as well throw those out. And essentially every single highly developed country with an economy that is not primarily dependent on resource extraction has a long cultural history of enforced monogamy. Correlation != causation and all that, but I sure as hell wouldn't bet on polygamy being a societal arrangement conducive to human flourishi

I that includes a very narrow form of polygamy. In particular, that men are the only ones allowed to take multiple partners. In a form of polygamy where everyone gets to take multiple partners it is exactly the opposite. Everyone is always available to form bonds with whom they want. This notion of being "taken" in marriage is what breaks polygamy.