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GCSE Sociology · key term
Having successive partners or marriages, but only one partner at a time, for example through divorce and remarriage.
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Revise: Family forms, diversity and relationshipsSerial monogamy means having successive partners, but only one at a time. Someone who marries, divorces and then remarries follows a pattern of serial monogamy. The marriages happen in sequence rather than overlap.
Component 1
Having successive marriages over a lifetime, with only one spouse at a time.
Polygamy is the umbrella term; polygyny and polyandry are its two forms. Serial monogamy involves successive partners, not several spouses at the same time.
Distinguish polygamy from serial monogamy: several spouses at the same time versus successive marriages with one spouse at a time.
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Serial monogamy means having successive marriages over a lifetime, with only one spouse at a time. Someone who divorces and later remarries is therefore not practising polygamy. Serial monogamy shows that monogamous marriage does not necessarily mean staying with the same partner throughout life.
A sequence of exclusive couple relationships, with one partner at a time rather than several simultaneously.
