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Discuss the role of multiple partner relationships, polygamous and polyamorous, in current and future Canada. This relates to Chapter 11, where you will find definitions and some discussions of the terms. It also relates, as you will see in the readings, to an ongoing debate in both Canada and the United States.
Marriage is regulated in all cultures according to rules designed to ensure order and continuity in society. Canadian law and social values on marriage are changing. Canada is incorporating more non-Christian immigrantion, while society generally becomes more secular. This can cause tensions betweenvalues. The debate over same-sex marriage is an example of this. More changes and more tension will come from the Federal court’s interpretations of the Constitution in terms of religious and individual freedoms.I am not asking that you set aside any strong moral or religious beliefs you may have on this topic. I do require that you recognize Canadian society includes people with many other beliefs and reasons for them, and that these will have to be part of the debate. That debate will take place less on moral and more on legal grounds- because the law at least viewed as being neutral.
The style will be an expository essay, in that you will be explaining the terms and matters relating to them, and only reaching a conclusion at the end. This is in contrast to an argumentative essaywhere you state a position at the beginning and develop and argument throughout.
REQUIRED are 2-3 pages, double spaced with 1"/25mm margins all around and using 12pt TimesNew Roman font.
REQUIRED are 6 or more of the sources below in your essay, with all of the sources cited in text and listed in the bibliography, using APA format. EXPLICIT reference in the paper to all of the sources listed below is REQUIRED. Additional sources are encouraged but not required, but if used must also be cited and listed according to APA
General Outline Provide a brief definition of single partner and each of the multiple partner marriage or marriage-like arrangements, highlighting the ways in which they are the same and how they are different.
Finally, state and explain your position (supported by references to the sources) on the following questions. What are the social (i.e., short term) and cultural (i.e., long term) consequences of multiple marriages or relationships in Canada? Should multiple marriages or relationships continue to be penalized or discouraged by the Canadian state? Finally, apart from what you personally feel should happen, how do you think Canada's laws and social attitudes towards these marital practices will develop?
Sources
These are the 6 REQUIRED sources.
.In 2011 there was a landmark Supreme Court case on the matter of religious polygyny in Bountiful, BC. That decision did not end the debate, but simply set up the terms of how the debate would proceed 7 years later. Most of the articles concentrate on Bountiful and Mormon practices, but several refer to how Canada responds to Muslim polygyny. The last article discusses how the details of the 2011 decision indirectly made multiple relationships (polyamory) legal - if they are not called marriage.
1.ANALYSIS: Canada’s problem with polygamy
https://globalnews.ca/news/4303067/why-polygamy-illegal-canada/
2.House arrest for polygamy pair after Canada's first convictions in a century
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/27/house-arrest-for-polygamy-pair-after-canadas-first-convictions-in-a-century
3.A timeline of polygamy in Canadahttps://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/06/26/a-timeline-of-polygamy-in-canada/
4.Inside the Shafia killings that shocked a nationhttps://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/inside-the-shafia-killings-that-shocked-a-nation/
5..Feminists call for decriminalization of polygamyhttps://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/in-wake-of-bountiful-charges-feminists-call-for-decriminalization-of-polygamy/
6.Canada polygamy ruling: Win, loss, or draw?https://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2011/11/canada-polygamy-ruling-win-loss-or-draw.html
The links below are for your interest. Use them in the paper if you want, but they are NOT
REQUIRED
These are from Slate, a US publication. The first defends polyamorous relationships, and argues for the "privatization" of marriage- making it an individual and contractual rather than a religious matter. The second cites ethnological research that examined polygynous marriages in other cultures and concluded that they were generally not as beneficial to the wives as they are to the husbands.
Links to the research in the article can be accessed through Langara's library.http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/06/polyamory_should_be_legal_it_s_consensual_and_fine_for_children.htmlhttp://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/01/the_problem_with_polygamy.html
single spaced entries,
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