this just happen in one country worldwide.where is there?
2007-09-20 01:07:22 · 9 answers · asked by yenny m 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Polyandrist.
2007-09-20 01:14:41 · answer #1 · answered by Wolf 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The term for a woman who marries more than one man is polyandrist.
Now India is the only country in the world that still practises this. I how ever don't blame the ladies because they're forced to do it by their communities.
India is one of the countries which during weddings the bride's family pays the dowry to the groom's family. Since many families are poor, they don't want to go through this so what they do is when a woman gets pregnant, if she has a girl, they usually kill the baby, if it is a boy, they keep him.
So that when the child grows up, he bring his family some riches by marrying a girl and sharing her with his brothers or other family members. What they do from here is that the woman would have a relation with her appointed husband, after she gives birth to his child, she moves to the next guy.
It is so sad because most villages are so poor that for every 100 men, they only have 4 women. So there's 1 woman for every 25 men. This is another reason why homosexuality is on the rise and sexually transmitted diseases as well and more and more people are dying of this disease pandemic or epidemic you can call it. Hope that helps, take care.
2007-09-21 01:55:13 · answer #2 · answered by bEiNg DiScIpLiNeD 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just like a man, if a woman is married to multiple men at the same time, they are also bigamists (2 men) or polygamists (more than one man). There is no real term for a woman when a marriage ends in annulment, divorce or a death, and a woman remarries.
2007-09-20 08:17:20 · answer #3 · answered by bumbass2003 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's called polyandry ("multiple men"). It is (or was) practiced in Nepal and Tibet where a woman would marry a family of brothers. It probably occurs or occurred in other cultures but I am unaware of them.
2007-09-20 08:17:20 · answer #4 · answered by philosophyangel 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't know of anyone, I mean who has time for that much laundry!?! I suppose she would be called a bigamist the same as a man with 2 families. I don't think there are any so most women who have two men are just adulteress
2007-09-20 08:15:41 · answer #5 · answered by SmEllY! 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Empowered Goddess...
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2007-09-20 08:15:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
polyandrist, and I dont know what country it happend in, but it was in one of clint eastwoods old western movies before.
2007-09-20 08:16:12 · answer #7 · answered by applebeer 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
but some religions want us to have only one partner..because of this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_disease
2007-09-20 12:01:54 · answer #8 · answered by Thomas 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I call her BUSY...lol
2007-09-20 08:15:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋