What is "group marriages"

Usage examples of "group marriages".

The misapprehension, though instantly corrected, stuck in my mind, so that I persistently thought of the woman at the center of these group marriages as a Polly.

As a result, the land was dotted with ramshackle windmill, solar heating panels, geodesic domes, group marriages, nudists, philosophers, theoreticians, messiahs, hermits, and more than a few just plain nuts.

Childless marriage, professional parenthood, postretirement childrearing, corporate families, communes, geriatric group marriages, homosexual family units, polygamy--these, then, are a few of the family forms and practices with which innovative minorities will experiment in the decades ahead.

The prohibition against sexual relations, even jokes, between generations, still ran strong, a remembrance of the time of group marriages when any man of her father's age could have actually been her father.

Invitations to join group marriages or pair bonds would be automatic, easy.

When national group marriages break down, the solutions are division of living space, divorce, or murder in the form of migration, revolution, or war until territorial monopolies of some kind stabilize.

Same-sex marriages, group marriages, you could even marry yourself—.

Why shouldn't scholars and scientists be free to pursue their special interests as much as communes and group marriages and revolutionaries?

Highlanders had a vested interest in conciliation, inpreserving the group marriages: that was why many houses contained Mediators,skilled negotiators.