State Polygamy

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Will we honor marriage or will we create a “kind of ‘state polygamy’ where women congregate around the major source of wealth — the government — while men slink off into their separate quarters to pursue a fading warrior culture — played out this time on video games”? ...
In short, will we insist on the ideal of a girl for every boy, a boy for every girl — and a mother and father for every child?

(Marriage and Civilization: How Monogamy Made Us Human, William Tucker, Quoted in The Evolution of Marriage, Ryan Anderson, May 2014)