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Citation: Alean Al-Krenawi. “Polygamy and Mental Health: an International Perspective”. EC Psychology and Psychiatry 1.1 (2016): 1-3. Polygamy The term polygamy is a Greek word meaning ‘‘the practice of multiple marriages’’ and is used in related ways in social anthropology, socio-biology, and sociology. Polygamy can be defined as a type of marriage practice or union that involves a number of people sharing a common spouse [1]. There are four main forms of polygamy: polygyny is the marriage of one man to many women, polyandry refers to the marriage of one woman to two or more husbands, polygyndry is a situation in which two or more women are at the same time married to two or more men, and polygynandry is used to refer to group marriage [1,2]. The other type of polygamy is an informal polygamy which describes relationships characterized by the simultaneous existence of a legal marriage of one man to a woman and an affair with a second woman that has become a stable feature of the family structure [3].
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