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group marriages
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Plural of group marriage
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He is skeptical that group marriages, of three or more partners, can last very long.
For example, in "Proposition 31" (1968), two respectable middle-class couples fight valiantly to legalize group marriages in California.
Through the 60s and 70s, communes, swinging and group marriages entered the mainstream, and then faded when HIV emerged.
The Pahāṛī have historically practiced a wide variety of marriage arrangements, including polyandry (several brothers sharing one or more wives), polygyny (several wives sharing a husband), group marriages (with an equal number of husbands and wives), and monogamy.
"There will be socially approved group marriages, there will be bigamous marriages, and there will be open-end marriages in which each partner has a relationship outside the marriage".
In his jaunty paper Alternative Family Lifestyles Revisited, or Whatever Happened To Swingers, Group Marriages And Communes?, family relationships professor Roger Rubin reports that only 43 of 238 societies across the world are monogamous.
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From inside the group, marriage can seem like a risky gambit.
These varied depending on the theorist but typically included variations such as group marriage, exogamy (outmarriage), matriarchy, and polygamy.
Standing amid the beaming couples on Saturday, John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney of the advocacy group Marriage Equality USA looked like proud fathers.
The advocacy group Marriage Equality California organized a march from the Castro District to the Supreme Court building for a rally.
"This is our lives on the line," said Molly McKay, media director of the volunteer group Marriage Equality USA.
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