{"id":8785,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/polygynous_households\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:29","slug":"polygynous_households","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/polygynous_households\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygynous households"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commonespecially in sub-Saharan Africa, they are family units in which one man ismarried to more than one woman.&nbsp; Polygynousextended households were probably a recurring feature of family life duringmost of human evolution. Persistent questions about such households in contemporarysociety included, for example, whether they involve more&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.vu.nl\/ws\/files\/48557142\/IFPRI_DP_2017_Cooperation_Polygynous_Households.pdf\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/research.vu.nl\/ws\/files\/48557142\/IFPRI_DP_2017_Cooperation_Polygynous_Households.pdf?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interpersonal cooperation<\/a>&nbsp;(e.g., among co-wives), are beneficial for&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehbonline.org\/article\/S1090-5138(17)30011-9\/abstract\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.ehbonline.org\/article\/S1090-5138(17)30011-9\/abstract?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">women<\/a>&nbsp;and for the developing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3974908\/\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3974908\/?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">infant and child<\/a>&nbsp;relative to monogamous families. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"nuclear_family\">Nuclear family<\/a>, Parenting<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commonespecially in sub-Saharan Africa, they are family units in which one man ismarried to more than one woman.&nbsp; Polygynousextended households were probably a recurring feature of family life duringmost of human evolution. Persistent questions about such households in contemporarysociety included, for example, whether they involve more&nbsp;interpersonal cooperation&nbsp;(e.g., among co-wives), are beneficial for&nbsp;women&nbsp;and for the developing&nbsp;infant &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/polygynous_households\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Polygynous households&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}