Editing Polygyny (section)

===The Americas===
====Chile====
{{Further|Mapuche polygamy}}
Polygyny has a long history among the [[Mapuche]] people of southern [[South America]]. Wives that share the same husband are often relatives, such as sisters, who live in the same community.<ref name=lainfo2013/> Having the same husband does not imply women belong to the same household.<ref name=lainfo2013/> Mapuche polygamy has no legal recognition in [[Chile]].<ref name=lainfo2013>{{Cite news|title=La poligamia pervive en las comunidades indígenas del sur de Chile|url=https://www.lainformacion.com/asuntos-sociales/la-poligamia-pervive-en-las-comunidades-indigenas-del-sur-de-chile_iIqbAIrxZAT9vQNPaqApd1/|last=Rausell|first=Fuencis|date=June 1, 2013|access-date=January 20, 2021|work=La Información|language=Spanish}}</ref> This puts women who are not legally married to their husband at disadvantage to any legal wife in terms of securing inheritance.<ref name=lainfo2013/> It is thought that present-day polygamy is much less common than it once was, in particularly compared with the time before the [[Occupation of Araucanía]] (1861–1883) when [[Araucanía (historic region)|Araucanía]] lost its autonomy.<ref name=lainfo2013/> Albeit chiefly rural, Mapuche polygamy has also been reported in the low-income peripheral communes of [[Santiago]].<ref name=Millaleo2018-133>{{Cite thesis|title=Poligamia mapuche / Pu domo ñi Duam (un asunto de mujeres): Politización y despolitización de una práctica en relación a la posición de las mujeres al interior de la sociedad mapuche|last=Millaleo Hernández|first=Ana Gabriel|degree=PhD|date=2018|publisher=[[University of Chile]]|url=http://repositorio.conicyt.cl/bitstream/handle/10533/220808/TesisDocAnaMillaleoCONICYT.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|place=Santiago de Chile|language=Spanish|page=133}}</ref>

====North America====
[[File:Ira_Eldredge_and_his_three_wives_circa_1864_(restored).png|thumb|Polygyny among 19th century Mormons: Portrait of Ira Eldredge with his three wives: Nancy Black Eldredge, Hannah Mariah Savage Eldredge, and Helvig Marie Andersen Eldredge.]]
{{Further|Latter Day Saint polygamy in the late-19th century}}
Polygyny is illegal in the United States and Canada.

[[Mormon fundamentalism]] believes in the validity of selected [[fundamentalism|fundamental]] aspects of [[Mormonism]] as taught and practiced in the nineteenth century. Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints' teachings include [[plural marriage]], a form of polygyny first taught by [[Joseph Smith]], the founder of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]].

In the 21st century, several sources have claimed as many as 60,000 fundamentalist Latter-day Saints in the United States,<ref>Martha Sonntag Bradley, "Polygamy-Practicing Mormons" in [[J. Gordon Melton]] and Martin Baumann (eds.) (2002). ''Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia'' '''3''':1023–1024.</ref><ref>''[[Dateline NBC]]'', 2001-01-02.</ref> with fewer than half of them living in polygamous households.<ref>Ken Driggs, "Twentieth-Century Polygamy and Fundamentalist Mormons in Southern Utah", ''[[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]'', Winter 1991, pp. 46–47.</ref> Others have suggested that there may be as few as 20,000 Mormon fundamentalists<ref>Irwin Altman, "Polygamous Family Life: The Case of Contemporary Mormon Fundamentalists", ''Utah Law Review'' (1996) p. 369.</ref><ref name=DMQ>D. Michael Quinn, [http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/dialogue,10141 "Plural Marriage and Mormon Fundamentalism"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613232550/http://content.lib.utah.edu/u/?%2Fdialogue%2C10141 |date=2011-06-13 }}, ''[[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]'' 31(2) (Summer 1998): 1–68, accessed 27 March 2009.</ref> with only 8,000 to 15,000 practicing polygamy.<ref>Stephen Eliot Smith, "'The Mormon Question' Revisited: Anti-Polygamy Laws and the Free Exercise Clause", LL.M. thesis, [[Harvard Law School]], 2005.</ref> The largest Mormon fundamentalist groups are the [[Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]] (FLDS Church) and the [[Apostolic United Brethren]] (AUB). The FLDS Church is estimated to have 10,000 members residing in the sister cities of [[Hildale, Utah|Hildale]], Utah and [[Colorado City, Arizona|Colorado City]], Arizona; [[Eldorado, Texas|Eldorado]], Texas; [[Westcliffe, Colorado|Westcliffe]], Colorado; [[Mancos, Colorado|Mancos]], Colorado; [[Creston, British Columbia|Creston]] and [[Bountiful, British Columbia|Bountiful]], British Columbia; [[Pringle, South Dakota|Pringle]], South Dakota, and Montana.<ref>[http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/polygamy/The_Primer.pdf "The Primer"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050111224555/http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/polygamy/The_Primer.pdf |date=2005-01-11 }} – Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Polygamous Communities. A joint report from the offices of the Attorneys General of Arizona and Utah.</ref>

In July 2022, a Mexican judge in the state of [[Puebla]]'s Eighth District Civil Court authorized the country's first threesome group marriage.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Carey |first1=Lydia |title=Judge gives go-ahead on Mexico's first polyamorous marriage |url=https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-first-polyamorous-marriage/ |website=Mexico News Daily |access-date=11 September 2022 |date=22 July 2022}}</ref>