My apologies, Schtickler! LOL I didn't provide it because I copy/pasted the whole (short) article.PVC
I know you are very smart and hate to be a schtickler (who am I kidding, I love to schtickle), but doesn't your post require a link?
Isn't it interesting how in some places the woman has to provide a "dowry" to attract a husband and in other places the man has to provide a ''bride price'' to get a wife? I guess it depends on which sex is the most plentiful in that part of the world.It is rare but I have heard of tribes in mountainous regions of Asia where it is/was? practised. Poor men are not likely to be able to afford a bride so the solution is for one woman to become the wife of several brothers.
As long as everyone involved is above the age of consent and they can afford to maintain multiple families without becoming a burden on the public it comes under the heading of none of my business.
And can you imagine all the laundry and cooking and bed making she would have to do.
Considering how fast he was moving back then, I wonder how many wives he has now? Muslims can only have four wives and an unlimited number of concubines. LDS can have any number of wives. The founder, Joseph Smith, had either 28 or 49 wives, the total number is disputed.When I was 14 I had a boyfriend who was LDS. He told me that he believed in polygamy and asked if I was okay with it. I said it was fine with me, not willing to admit that I didn't have a clue what polygamy was. He started seeing my best friend, so I dumped him. Only years later did I understand.
LOL - "Train" a wife. wuf, wuf. Do those Milk Bones work?Imagine having to train multiple wives. I have been struggling with just one for 60 years.
Considering how fast he was moving back then, I wonder how many wives he has now? Muslims can only have four wives and an unlimited number of concubines. LDS can have any number of wives. The founder, Joseph Smith, had either 28 or 49 wives, the total number is disputed.
Za-Za Gabor!!I don't think I ever heard of a woman with multiple husbands???
I hear you.I'm against cults with multiple wives/husbands; but to each his own. However - when I was working full time and raising 4 children with 3 of them playing baseball and still had to do the cooking and cleaning, it would have seemed like a good idea. That way my husband and I could work and the other 'wife' could stay home and do the cooking, cleaning, busing boys to practice and games, make sure they did their homework, etc. It would have been cheaper than having a live-in maid. Not to mention that my husband had to work out of town a lot and I would be gone a week at a time during trade show season.
Hmm..... Perhaps a bad choice of words?I hear you.
When I was a young and struggling wife and mother I used to muse that I wouldn't mind if Hubby took a second wife, as long as I could be head wife.
Muslims permitted (not necessarily encouraged) polygamous marriages because in ancient times, many Muslim men were lost to war leaving too many widows with children. A Muslim man is not obligated to support any woman who is not his wife so the men took on more than one wife. The ruling was no more than 4 wives and they couldn't be related (sisters, children of the wife(wives), aunts, etc. The women had to be of sound mind and able to make decisions for themselves, were not to be coerced or forced into marriage. The marriages had to be witnessed and made public...not done in secret.I didn't want to hijack the thread about the Mormons in Mexico, but I have wondered about this for a long time. Why is polygamy so hated by many in the western world? After all, it exists in the Bible, and has continuously existed throughout human history. If people choose that lifestyle, who is it harming? And why the intense feeling against it?
The TV series Big Love explored this subject in a very interesting way. Did anyone else watch it?
To the pure of mind, all things are pure.Hmm..... Perhaps a bad choice of words?
Not gonna find a lot of "pure of mind" on this forum.To the pure of mind, all things are pure.