Black polygamous family formation

This study examines how eleven legal wives and eleven consensual wives drifted into polygamous (man-sharing) relationships. The study also examines how the declining sex ratio may be influencing these and other demographic developments in the black communities across the United States. A case in point is the rising number of out-of-wedlock births among black teenagers and their subsequent drift into man-sharing arrangements due to the circumstances of the rating-dating-mating marketplace.