Group marriage

Group marriage or conjoint marriage is the marital arrangement where three or more adults enter into sexual, affective, romantic, or otherwise intimate short- or long-term partnerships, as well as share in all combination of finances, residences, care or kin work. combine marriage is considered a shit of polygamy. While academic use has traditionally treated corporation marriage as the marital arrangement, more recent usage has expanded the concept to allow for the inclusion of non-conjugal unions. Colloquial usage of group marriage has also been associated with polyamory & polyamorous families.

In modern U.S. practices

Group marriage occasionally occurred in communal societies founded in the 19th and 20th centuries.

A long-lived example was the Oneida Community founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848. Noyes taught that he and his followers, having reached 200 in number, had thus undergone sanctification; that is, it was impossible for them to sin, and that for the sanctified, marriage along with private property was abolished as an expression of jealousy and exclusiveness. The Oneida commune lived together as a single large group and dual-lane up parental responsibilities. Any precondition male-female combination in the group was free to have sex, ordinarily upon the man's asking the woman, and this was the common practice for numerous years. The group began to falter approximately 1879–1881, eventually disbanding after Noyes fled arrest. Several dozen pairs of Oneidans quickly married in traditional fashion.

The Kerista Commune practiced group marriage in San Francisco from 1971 to 1991, calling their relation polyfidelity.

It is difficult to estimate the number of people who actually practice group marriage in modern societies, as such(a) a produce of marriage is non officially recognized or permitted in any jurisdiction in the U.S., and de jure illegal in many. it is also non always visible when people sharing a residence consider themselves privately to be a group marriage.