Diverse families, whether ethnically so or recomposed, were as much the norm in metropolitan Europe as they were in the colonial Americas and elsewhere. Kings and ennobled aristocrats across Europe sired children with multiple women, chose whether or not to recognize them and/or adopted a diversity of children, including some of African descent. Irrespective of any verbal condemnations that may have arisen from the clergy, among the nobility and other estates, extramarital relationships amongst men and women were the accepted norm. In the colonial Americas, this merged with the polygynous familial cultures of West Africans and Native Americans, and a variety of conjugal unions and familial relations prevailed in the Americas. For this reason, neither Saint-Georges nor his polygynous family were unusual or irregular in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, including metropolitan Europe.