TURKEY’S WIVES
“ONE OR MORE?” CONTROVERSY. LONION, February 22. The question of polygamy versus monogamjr is involved in the new Family Rights Bill, which will he debated shortly in the Angora Assembly, says the Constantinople correspondent of “The Times.” The question is already arousing keenest popular interest, and the columns of the Frees are filled daily with letters from correspondents arguing the merits of the two systems from every conceivable viewpoint. Apart, however, from arguments based on ethical and sociological considerations, the question seems likely to be decided mainly on economic grounds. Whereas the dearness of living has strengthened the arguments of the educated classes in favour of monogamy, it has had a contrary effect in the case of the poorer peasant classes in Anatolia, where wives are a source of direct profit to husbands. Since peasants form the majority of the nation, and polygamy is considered the best means of quickly furnishing the population of which the country stands in such need, it is likely that polygamy will remain permissible
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11783, 20 March 1924, Page 11
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