What Kinds Of Marriage Exist?
Monogamy, polygamy and polyandry are some of the marriage contracts used throughout the world. The version of marriage allowed in a society traditionally on the geographical location, religious make-up of the society, availability of males and females and economic status of the society. Monogamy is generally divided into two different types; strict monogamy where a person is allowed only one spouse per lifetime and serial monogamy where people can be married to more than one person – just not at the same time. There are also several specialized types of monogamous marriages that involve cousins; bilateral, matrilateral, patrilateral and parallel cousin marriage. Polyandry is where a woman can have more than one husband at the same time and is generally divided into fraternal polyandry (where the husbands are brothers) and non-fraternal polyandry (where the husbands are not related). Polygyny is the practice of a man having multiple wives simultaneously and has been historically the mos
