Why does Western/American culture encourage monogamy over polygamy?

Walking down the aisle, making eye contact with the one person that you'll spend the rest of your life with. An image that most people see as marriage: the joining of two people under law and holy matrimony. 

 The thing is though is that this image of marriage isn't the same for everyone. In particular the idea of polygamy is one that includes more than one spouse in a relationship. An idea that is vastly frowned upon in America alone.

 So why is it that this form of a relationship is frowned upon? Is it because it is viewed as "unfaithful" or is it because we have a large percentage of christian views in our political frame in the US? There is probably more than one opinion regarding polygamy in America but the law states "Polygamy and bigamy are illegal in the US... In some states, the law uses the terms interchangeably". 

  Nigel Barber "who received his Ph.D. in Biopsychology from Hunter College, CUNY, and taught psychology at Bemidji State University and Birmingham Southern College" states that In other countries not in America, "plural marriage is surprisingly common, and popular, elsewhere. In poorer countries about a sixth of women share their husbands". So is the reason for this unapproving attitude towards polygamy in western/America culture due to the lack of impoverished regions?

 What ever the reason may be the idea of polygamy is still explored within the US whether legal or not. Overall everyone including the government will have an opinion on the matters of marriage and relationships because it puts down guidelines for those who have differing ideas of relationships.  

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