Short Essay on Group Marriage – Theoretically group marriage means the marriage of two or more women with two or more men. But this arrangement is practically rare. Here the husbands are common husbands and wives are common wives.
Children are regarded as the children of the entire group as a whole. Children call men of such a group their fathers and all the women their mothers. Some of the tribals in Australia, India, Tibet and Ceylon are believed to have practised group marriage.
Some writers have said that group marriage is not in existence. If at all it is in practice, it is clubbed with polyandry. For example, two Toda brothers marry two women as their common wives.
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It is also said that monogamous or polygynous or polyandrous marriage associated with the practice of concubinage, sexual hospitality or socially tolerated adultery, is mistaken to be group marriage. Many studies have revealed that the practice of group marriage is almost on the verge of extinction.