Polygamous Marriage Quotes



Notes was the founder of the Utopian Community of Oneida, New York. It was based on a concept of work distribution with an almost communal style of raising children and everyday living. In such a circumstance, the role of the married couple was far more complex that in the typical single family structure which permeated society at the time for the middle and upper classes while the poor had almost no structure that could be maintained. Monogamy rules were discouraged and some critics described the situation as free love. Notes, politically wisely, preferred the term "complex marriage" which did not have all the pejorative baggage that "free love" did. Oneida evolved to a more conventional social structure over time, and the community members developed skills like silver smithing that allowed them to be quite successful economically, and "Oneide Silver" was prized into the 21st century.


Lockwood had sought the post of Minister to Turkey, a Muslim country which allowed a man four wives. Cleveland had instead selected a man who was generally known as a womanizer.