0 the practice of having concubines:
Communist revolutionaries banned bigamy and concubinage in China.
On the other hand, it was seen as comparable to concubinage.
Marriage, with its legal commitments, is primarily associated with property and social position and a common law concubinage often takes its place.
It goes without saying that arguing about the home also meant arguing about women's status in it, legal rights, and concubinage.
The majority of pregnancies in concubinages did not lead to successful offspring.
Furthermore, this mention of simony and concubinage also points to a community of affluent clerics and archons who are able to disburse funds in such a manner.
The injunction made in the latter not only casts light on the cliché of the ill-married woman (treated in more detail below), but also bears on the legitimacy of concubinage.
While many of the changes in gender relations described in the book did take place, this work seems to ignore the widespread practice of friar concubinage.
Does "family" mean a man and a woman in marriage or a man and a woman in concubinage?