There is therefore some reason to suppose that monogamy, by resulting in a low-pressure demographic profile, was a necessary condition for industrialization.
... In polygynous societies, investment in additional concubines tends to have a large payoff and requires little investment in children. ... Monogamy, however, restricts the investment of individual males to the offspring of one woman. ... doctrine of consent in marriage acted as a force against extended kinship relationships.
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