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Originally Posted by Niamh.

I understand what you're saying and that's fine but why the need to get married at all in that case? Why not just have different partners? It kind of defeats the whole purpose of marriage if you ask me and lessons what our society considers marriage to be. Also, I don't know how good it would be to bring children into that kind of situation either.

um..I guess the need to marry binds those individuals into a relationship that they can't just treat as a 'throw away' relationship. I'd assume they'd all live together or at the very least some of them would live together and they would have some binding things that weren't just 'get up and walk away', just as any marriage would have.

I do share concerns with children, but maybe that depends again on how responsible those involved in the relationship are rather than the relationship style itself. Should lesbians or gays not be able to bring up children? I don't know but I really dislike that the state is making up our minds for us.

As long as there are no parties being hurt, then why should people not be able to live polyandric lives? or indeed any other frowned upon lifestyle for example gay or lesbian marriage?

Polygamous relationships have worked in many societies for years, so I don't see why polyandric ones potentially couldn't do the same.