近些年来,随着经济的发展和人们价值取向的变化,现实生活中纳妾、包养情妇的现象呈增长趋势。2000年4月全国妇联就修改婚姻法对全国31个省、自治区、直辖市进行民意抽样调查,结果显示,94．2％的人认为对重婚纳妾、包二奶要予以法律制裁。但与此形成鲜明反差的是,重婚罪的司法适用屈指可数,许多基层法院已经几年没有审理重婚案件。为何人们对法律惩治重婚的呼声如此之高,而实际效果却是如此之微呢? In recent years, with the development of economy and the change of people’s value orientation, concubinage and mistress in the real life have been increasing. In April 2000, the All-China Women’s Federation conducted a sample opinion survey on the laws of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government on the Amendment of Marriage Law. The results showed that 94.2% of the people think that mistreatment of mistresses and mistresses should be sanctioned. However, in stark contrast, the judicial application of bigamy is very limited and many grass-roots courts have not heard the case of bigamy for several years. Why do people punish the bigamy of the law so high, but the actual effect is so small?