You obviously don't have a clue.
What makes you think the child does not understand its own problem ?
Tell any such mother that the child owes her and she doesn't need to
feel responsible to the child.

There is nothing more to be said to you. Don't bother replying.

Leaving aside the obvious eugenic angle to your argument, Bazz, you should also be aware that incestuous relationships have a much lower probability of producing birth defects than, say, smokers, drinkers, women over 40, people with a family history of cancer, workers in risky industries, hemophiliacs, drug users ... I assume you believe each of these groups should 'spend many years in prison for child abuse'?

My sincere apologies Tastiger - the only excuse I have to offer is tiredness and a big week!

You are right, our lives on this planet short, every relationship, particularly long term ones are invaluable, to not only the three, four or more people themselves, but to other people.

A point I should have included that probably is a wonderful positive to polygamy if the three or more adults are not producing large families, is the benefit of extended families living together enjoying the support network, which we all know, most of the time had been present in past generations; highly positive environments for children if alcohol drugs and violence were absent.

Many children have suffered from lack of extended family presence and support, therefore, I see some positives regarding your family set up.

Re; my financial assistance to children in polygamous families Tastiger, these are situations whereby the 'father' has two wives with 6 children produced by three adults.

All the best

Just to back up Clownfish's last opinion I actually have some figures on the chances of incestuous relationships producing birth defects.

Please be aware that I do not support incest by posting these figures - it is simply for illustration purposes:-

* Father/daughter, mother/son or brother/sister - 25%
* Grandfather/granddaughter or grandmother/grandson - 12.5%
* Half-brother/half-sister - 12.5%
* Uncle/niece or aunt/nephew - 12.5%
* Double first cousins - 12.5%
* Great-grandfather/great-granddaughter or great-grandmother/great-grandson - 6.25%
* Half-uncle/niece or half-aunt/nephew - 6.25%
* First cousins - 6.25%
* First cousins once removed or half-first cousins - 3.125%
* Second cousins or first cousins twice removed - 1.5625%
* Second cousins once removed or half-second cousins - 0.78125%

As for Polyandry - "That is why cousin marriage and polyandry should be legally banned
under threat of a prison sentence."

Again - I wish people would check words before throwing them about :-
polyandry
noun
* polygamy in which a woman has more than one husband.

This is usually only practised in regions where there are more women than men in the population and it does exactly the opposite of corrupting the gene pool as one woman may have children with several men therefore diversifying the gene pool. Geneticists have worked out that you can restart a population with 160 individuals - 80 men and 80 women and obviously the more you "mix up" those base genes the better.

Thanks weareunique for at least seeing my side of the argument and acknowledging that there just may be some positives in alternate relationships.

Just to add another perspective to the argument:-

These days with lesbian relationship numbers growing, it really isn't all that unusual for "little Jenny" to go to school and talk about "mummy and mummy", in fact it is quite acceptable at most schools because her home life is seen as loving family environment unless said school is homophobic.

Why then would it be so bad if "little Jenny" went to school and talked about "mummy, mummy and daddy" or "mummy, daddy and daddy"?

A lot of kids already have a blended family background where more than one "mother or father" figure have an influence on their life - it's just that they don't live with all their role models and this is always not a really healthy environment for them. They grow up thinking it's OK to marry someone and then divorce.

Alternate relationships such as polygamy and polyandry may be just a step in the right direction to changing that "short term marriage" thinking.