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If some have multiple wives, it means others have zero wives, since there wouldn't be enough females to go around.

Historically, following a war, there are too few husbands to go around. In strictly monogamous cultures, the result is that some women cannot find a husband and additionally typically have to also put up with harassment over their lack of a husband and children.



Re: Historically, following a war, there are too few husbands to go around.

While perhaps true, if the present condition is a roughly even mix, then tension builds.


...if...

You appear to be doing a great deal of speculating without gathering much in the way of data to support your conclusions. This isn't exactly a best practice.


Fair enough, the Middle East currently doesn't have ratios that deviate much from the global average: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio




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