Is this why polygamy gets pinned on BY more often than JS?

[Indy Coug]

I don't understand all of the concern about abandonment. The church could have easily have dealt with these problem by setting up an organization that would take care of the temporal needs of the 'abandoned' wives and children. The husbands could have paid into the caretaking organization according to the number of women and children for whom they were temporally responsible. It didn't require anyone going to jail or abandoning responsibility.

Good point. Why would those women and children need a man in their lives?

[Katy Lied]

I don't understand all of the concern about abandonment. The church could have easily have dealt with these problem by setting up an organization that would take care of the temporal needs of the 'abandoned' wives and children. The husbands could have paid into the caretaking organization according to the number of women and children for whom they were temporally responsible. It didn't require anyone going to jail or abandoning responsibility.

So a husband and father can be replaced by a check every month?

[Moliere]

So a husband and father can be replaced by a check every month?

Yeah, and I bet that father would have been really happy to never live with his kids again. YOu have to remember that polygamists only did it for the sex. THey didn't care about or have any emotional ties to the other wife or the children.

/TIC

[mrluchini]

Yeah, and I bet that father would have been really happy to never live with his kids again. YOu have to remember that polygamists only did it for the sex. THey didn't care about or have any emotional ties to the other wife or the children.

/TIC

Yea that great emotional connection you have when you have 30 wives and 100 kids all while running the church.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Justifiably?

Sure. (assuming I understand your question correctly)

What if you had three kids and you were asked to disown two and keep one. Or serve a relatively short jail term and keep all three. Which would you do?

From what I understand, nobody was prosecuted twice. So once you served your time they left you alone.

[Katy Lied]

I wonder if they had to disown wives 2, 3, 4... or if they had a choice.

[beefytee]

Pretty great example of the moral/ethical relativism that is so warned against in so many conference talks these days.

I think the same principles are applied in the church today.

Specifically, I think that the church sending illegal immigrants on missions is a pretty good parallel. The church certainly doesn't want to deny the young people the opportunity to go on a mission because of decisions that their parents made in bringing them to this country illegally.

Once again, you have to make due when there are no good options to bad situations.

[UtahDan]

Yeah, and I bet that father would have been really happy to never live with his kids again. YOu have to remember that polygamists only did it for the sex. THey didn't care about or have any emotional ties to the other wife or the children.

/TIC

In truth many of them never did live with their wives. My great great grandfather had several families and he didn't live with any of them that I know of. He lived in the Logan temple by himself. I don't think men who had 30+ children participated much in their rearing.