Pygmies Family In Central African Republic -

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - CIRCA 1900: Pygmies family in Central African Republic - Man resting in front of the house where he lives with his two wives. Pygmies live in polygamy. They have very free sexual relations, very young. 13 years old "women" are often already mothers. Marriage is celebrates generally after the birth of one or two children. Before marriage, the woman stays in the camp of her parents, with her children. The man has to make for the parents of the woman some works. When this works are done, the woman can jog and live with her husband. A married man has a “priority" to take the younger sister of his wife as new wife. (Photo by Veronique DURRUTY/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)