Editing Polygamy (section)

===Serial monogamy===
[[Serial monogamy]] refers to remarriage after divorce or death of a spouse from a monogamous marriage, i.e. multiple marriages but only one legal spouse at a time (a series of monogamous relationships).<ref name="Helen Fisher">{{cite book |last=Fisher |first=Helen |publisher=Ballantine Books |title=The First Sex |pages=[https://archive.org/details/firstsexnatur00fish/page/271 271–72, 276] |isbn=978-0-449-91260-7 |year=2000 |url=https://archive.org/details/firstsexnatur00fish/page/271 }}</ref>

According to Danish scholar Miriam K. Zeitzen, anthropologists treat [[serial monogamy]], in which divorce and remarriage occur, as a form of polygamy as it also can establish a series of households that may continue to be tied by shared paternity and shared income.<ref name="Zeitzen">{{cite book |last=Zeitzen |first=Miriam Koktvedgaard |title=Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis |year=2008 |publisher=Berg |location=Oxford |isbn=978-1-84520-220-0}}</ref> As such, they are similar to the household formations created through divorce and serial monogamy.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=FALEN|first=DOUGLAS J.|date=2009-10-23|title=Polygamy: a cross-cultural analysis by Zeitzen, Miriam Koktvedgaard|journal=Social Anthropology|volume=17|issue=4|pages=510–511|doi=10.1111/j.1469-8676.2009.00088_20.x|issn=0964-0282}}</ref>

Serial monogamy creates a new kind of relative, the "ex-".<ref>For a popular press angle, see e.g. Rosie Wilby, ''Is Monogamy Dead?: Rethinking Relationships in the 21st Century'' (Cardiff: Accent Press, 2017), 107. {{ISBN|9781786154521}}. For deeper, scholarly analysis, see e.g. David Silverman, "The Construction of 'Delicate' Objects in Counselling", in ed. Margaret Wetherell et al., ''Discourse Theory and Practice: A Reader'' (London: Sage, 2001), 123–27. {{ISBN|9780761971566}}</ref> The "ex-wife", for example, can remain an active part of her "ex-husband's" life, as they may be tied together by legally or informally mandated economic support, which can last for years, including by [[alimony]], [[child support]], and [[joint custody]]. Bob Simpson, the British social anthropologist, notes that it creates an "extended family" by tying together a number of households, including mobile children. He says that Britons may have ex‑wives or ex‑brothers‑in‑law, but not an ''ex‑child''. According to him, these "unclear families" do not fit the mold of the monogamous nuclear family.<ref>{{cite book |last=Simpson |first=Bob |title=Changing Families: An Ethnographic Approach to Divorce and Separation |year=1998 |publisher=Berg |location=Oxford}}</ref>