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	WLUML: Calls for Action USA: Polygamy related abuses in Utah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Polygamous marriages are practiced on a large scale especially in the State of Utah, but in neighbouring U.S. states as well.
		The religious teachings of these polygamous groups and the closed nature of their communities create conditions in which women and girls are especially vulnerable to violence, coercion, and abuse.
		Women and girls who have fled polygamous families report that religious teachings emphasize their duty to submit to the authority of their fathers, husbands, and male religious leaders, and make spiritual salvation contingent on polygamous marriage.
	www.wluml.org /english/actionsfulltxt.shtml?cmd[156]=i-156-b83dd8b73b177b172e5b7cb35c9eb7e7&cmd[169]=i-169-b83dd8b73b177b172e5b7cb35c9eb7e7 (2647 words)

	Polygamy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Opponents of this view believe that verse 4:129 does not seek to discourage polygamy, but instead guides the husband on how to treat all of his wives fairly in practice, even though, in term of (love and emotions) he will not be able to love and feel the same for them (all) equally.
		Even though Muhammed was himself polygamous, he expressed disapproval of it for his own daughter, Fatima and recognised that it would emotionally upset her.
		Most of the polygamy is believed to be restricted to about a dozen extended groups of polygamous Mormon fundamentalists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polygamy (4349 words)

	Polygamy - Should men be allowed more than one wife in the UK?
		At present it's believed there are 300 polygamous families living in the UK.
		If polygamous marriages are recognised under British law, polyandry –; where women can have more than one husband – could also become law under our equal rights legislation.
		Samira has no access to the courts to demand payment for herself as a legal wife, neither is she able to obtain maintenance for the children and rights of inheritance for them.
	www.islamfortoday.com /polygamy1.htm (947 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: History of Marriage
		Hence polygamous marriages are found for the most part among the kings, chiefs, strong men, and rich men of the community; and its prevailing form seems to have been bigamy.
		Moreover, polygamous unions are, as a rule, modified in the direction of monogamy, inasmuch as one of the wives, usually the first married, occupies a higher place in the household than the others, or one of them is the favourite, and has exceptional privileges of intercourse with the common husband.
		Among the principal causes of polygamy are: the relative scarcity of males, arising sometimes from numerous destructive wars, and sometimes from an excess of female births; the unwillingness of the husband to remain continent when intercourse with one wife is undesirable or impossible; and unrestrained lustful cravings.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09693a.htm (4704 words)

	The Biblical Data On Polygamy - Chapter One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Polygamous societies have existed in America (most notably the nineteenth century Mormons), and remnants are still present.
		If the validity or invalidity of the polygamous argument can be ascertained, the severity of the clash between opposing forces could be reduced by proposing that positions be compromised or abandoned in accordance with this study's conclusion.
		When polygamous marriage is then viewed in relation to an already-established concept of marriage (monogamy), polygamy is easily seen to fall short of the divine intent of marriage (which is monogamy) and more importantly even disqualified as a legitimate marriage form by definition.
	www.polygamy.net /Biblical-Data/Chapter-One.htm (7125 words)

	Polygamous clans of Utah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The polygamous clans of Utah are a group of offshoots of the Mormon church, who still practice plural marriage despite that practice's ban by the mainstream LDS church.
		In this form of polygamy, men are married to multiple women simultaneously.
		Utah Case Stirs Controversy CNN - A court case involving a young girl refusing to stay in a polygamous relationship has stirred public debate and controversy in Utah over the issues of sex, polygamy and child abuse.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Polygamous_clans_of_Utah.html (462 words)

	A brief history of polygamy in southern Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A broad survey of homestead patterns in the region reveals that whilst a number of polygamous settlements may still be found in the rural countryside, these are in a distinct minority, and monogamous marriages appear to be the general norm.
		The practice of polygamy may, in most cases, be explained in terms of a levirate, a social practice, used to ensure the continued status and survival of widows and orphans within an established family structure.
		While it is true, therefore, that every rural family is potentially polygamous in nature, we need to question whether such polygamy was the result of "male sexuality and lust", as the missionaries would have it, or merely the enforcement of social obligations intended to reinforce ties between family or clan groupings.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/specialprojects/kwamsiza/briefPolygamy.htm (570 words)

	Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Polygamous Judge in Utah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On the other hand most states limit what a woman can receive if she is married, so perhaps the rules governing married women or accounting for the husband's financial resources are the more applicable.
		One of the issues with polygamy in polygamous societies is that men often use the size of their harem as an indicator of wealth.
		Posted by: raj at March 9, 2005 08:42 AM One of the issues with polygamy in polygamous societies is that men often use the size of their harem as an indicator of wealth.
	www.stcynic.com /blog/archives/2005/03/polygamous_judg.php (1698 words)

	French government tears polygamous families apart
		The French government wants to outlaw polygamy to protect the estimated 140,000 people living in polygamous families - but it is tearing apart established families in the process.
		It was a period of industrial unrest in the French public sector, and the government encouraged men from Mali, Senegal, Cameroon and Togo to come and clean the streets and empty the dustbins.
		Many of them came from polygamous cultures, and they brought their families with them.
	www.islamfortoday.com /polygamy2.htm (334 words)

	FORUM for køn og kultur > English
		The acknowledgement of a man's right to be polygamous is thus carefully weighed against the reality of men who are generally seen as unable to live up to these conditions.
		Zainab, a 47-year old executive, distinguishes between her own potential polygamous marriage and her parents' harmonious polygamous marriage, in which her father, his three wives and 14 children all lived in the same house.
		Gossip creates a sense of an increase in the number of polygamous marriages among urban Malays, which in turn creates anxiety among women about whether their husband will be the next to marry a second wife.
	www.forum.kvinfo.dk /english/article.epl?id=337661 (3356 words)

	Inheritance of Illegitimate Polygamist's Children
		The respondent attempted to justify any harm done to polygamous children as far as designating them as illegitimate and having no rights to inheritance, by rationalizing that it was necessary in order to break up the system that produces illegitimate children of illegal polygamous unions.
		Concern with the arguments of the respondents, the opinion rendered was that the 1852 Territorial Act was disapproved and annulled by the 1862 Anti-bigamy Act and that the judgments of the lower probate and district courts should be affirmed.
		It was not the intention of Congress in 1862 to disinherit polygamist's children because the Edmunds Law stated that all children of polygamous marriages born before the 1st, January 1883, shall be legitimate claimed Blackburn.
	www.xmission.com /~plporter/lds/illegit.htm (3917 words)

	lynevere: as promised, Polygamy!
		Anyway, the point of all this, is that there are certainly examples of polygamous marriage systems that work quite well and are accepted readily by the cultures that practice them.
		I don't think there's evidence to support a position that polygamous marriages are inherently less stable in a way that is significant to their children.
		Presumably, a marriage system which was very rigidly polygamous in a single direction could lead to a large number of irritated members of the short-ended gender.
	www.livejournal.com /~lynevere/25063.html (3184 words)

	The Tax Credits (Polygamous Marriages) Regulations 2003
		(b) any person who is married to either member of the polygamous couple and who is not separated from that member under a court order or in circumstances in which the separation is likely to be permanent.
		(c) in paragraph (1)(c) for the words preceding paragraph (i) substitute "is a member or are members of a polygamous unit where at least one member is engaged in qualifying remunerative work and at least one other".
		In regulation 4(1) (modifications to the Tax Credits Act 2002) add at the end "(which, in the case of a claim by the members of a polygamous unit, are subject to the modifications made by regulations 4 to 21 of the Tax Credits (Polygamous Marriages) Regulations 2003)".
	www.hmso.gov.uk /si/si2003/20030742.htm (2717 words)

	Polygamous Breeding Method (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A polygamous mating is simply mating a cock bird to more than one hen.
		The end result of all the variations on this theme is that a greater number of young are raised out the cock bird and the breeder is able to use the cock bird on more than one hen.
		The polygamous method is a compromise which, for me, has been a viable alternative which satisfies my requirements.
	www.slobberknockerlofts.com /articles/polygamous_breeding_method.htm (634 words)

	Polygamous marriage is evil
		Re: Polygamous marriage is approved in the scriptures, isn't it?
		Just because men of the bible did that does not mean GOD said they could God did not say it was ok for David to sleep with an other mans wife then kill the man to cover up his sin.
		Polygamous marriages are evil and the Middle East might be more civilized if it were not of this.
	www.truthtree.com /Gay/posts/2269.html (293 words)

	Mormon Polygamy after Wilford Woodruff's manifesto
		Polygamous husbands and wives prior to the Manifesto had made sacred covenants with each other and God to multiply and replenish the earth, and the 1891 official interpretation of the Manifesto required them to break those covenants either through total abstinence or by divorce.
		The result was that most pre-1890 polygamists and every polygamous General Authority continued to cohabit with their plural wives of childbearing age.
		Under criminal law, such an additional marriage was untouchable because the law did not recognize the validity of any polygamous marriage; therefore pre-existing, continuing polygamous marriages could not be a legal impediment to a civil marriage with a new wife.
	www.lds-mormon.com /new_plural_marriages.shtml?FACTNet (3083 words)

	PLURAL MARRIAGES AFTER THE 1890 MANIFESTO
		A person is liable to be excommunicated either for polygamous cohabitation, or for marrying in new plural marriage.
		He resumed polygamous cohabitation after about 4 years, when it gradually dawned on him that Joseph F. Smith and other General Authorities were violating their public pledges regarding cohabitation with plural wives.
		Most of the polygamous relationships that existed began with a formal ceremony in which there was a formal officiator performing it.
	www.ldshistory.net /pc/postman.htm (15179 words)

	LA Times article on polygamous abuse
		They also have recruited former "sister wives" to help build a massive class-action suit to be filed against a polygamous religious group that arranges marriages of girls as young as 13.
		The activists called polygamous leaders "the American Taliban," saying women are subjugated by the practice of plural marriage.
		Colorado City and Hildale, Utah, are polygamous communities that straddle the states' borders about 40 miles southwest of here.
	www.helpthechildbrides.com /news/latimes020818.htm (668 words)

	Press Release January 6, 2005 "The Primer" Explains Unique Issues For Victims From Polygamous Communities
		Historically, victims from polygamous communities have been underserved because of geographic isolation and/or because they distrust government agencies and other outsiders.
		The manual comes with a disclaimer that it is not an "exhaustive resource of everything that goes on in polygamous communities" and that many of the beliefs, practices and terms may not apply to each community or family.
		The manual is a living document that will be updated to reflect modifications in the law, availability of resources and changes in the practices and doctrinal beliefs of individual groups.
	attygen.state.ut.us /PrRel/prjan062005.htm (564 words)

	KUTV: As Authorities Close in, Polygamous Prophet May be Moving his Flock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		They don't know where they'll live, who will live with them or whether they'll be torn from their families and neighbors and uprooted two states away.
		And neither is the man who will make that decision for them -the reclusive prophet of the polygamous Fundamental Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter Day Saints, who is reportedly building a new, heavily fortified compound in Texas where he and his closest supporters will live.
		News in the polygamous communities is driven by speculation and whisper, which Brower calls a ``highly refined rumor mill.''
	kutv.com /topstories/local_story_064130800.html (1326 words)

	Pro-Polygamy.com ™ - 'Polygamous Orientation' Study Amuses Pro-Polygamists
		He discovered that the polygamous voles do not have certain extra biological receptors in their brains which the monogamous voles do have.
		Yet the polygamous voles were treated as though they were somehow "missing" the extra receptors.
		The results which Young reported suggested that the infected injected polygamous voles were transformed into monogamists.
	www.pro-polygamy.com /articles.php?news=0018 (741 words)

	Irish Times Article - Polygamous man seeks entry visa for second wife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A polygamous Lebanese army officer has taken a legal challenge against a decision preventing him from having both his wives and 13 children live with him in Ireland.
		Mr Hussein Ali Hammoud, a naturalised Irish citizen, was told his first wife and eight of his children couldn't travel here to live with him on public policy grounds and because Irish law "does not permit polygamy".
		However, his first wife and the rest of his children were still not permitted to enter.
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/front/2003/1218/3570524740HM1TWOLADIES.html (464 words)

	azcentral.com \| special report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		School board controlled by polygamous sect cancels an emergency bond election intended to raise $1.5 million for a public school system already under scrutiny for its spending policies.
		Decades of official neglect allowed a polygamous cult to dig a rabbit hole, where tyranny is disguised by the robes of a ''prophet'' and individual rights are buried.
		SALT LAKE CITY - The head of the nation's largest polygamous community, headquartered along the Arizona-Utah line, was accused Thursday in a lawsuit of repeatedly sodomizing his nephew and for decades covering up wide-scale sexual abuse of children by fellow members of his sect.
	www.azcentral.com /specials/polygamy (1518 words)

	The Niqabi Paralegal: recognition of polygamous marriages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This particular marriage (i.e., to a 13 year old girl) certainly strikes one as questionable at best (and according to this story the circumstances are indeed repugnant) but the judge seems to have felt that even a polygamous marriage involving all consenting adults was equally repugnant.
		Obviously the character of the marriage must be fixed at its inception, and if it is originally polygamous under its proper law, the change of domicile cannot either entitle it to recognition as a marriage in the English sense or render illegal and void what is originally lawful and valid.
		Ct., N.Y. Co. 1992), a NY court held that one of Chief Moshood Abiola's wives was not entitled to a share of marital property upon divorce, although it granted her child support and custody of her children (neither of which depended on the existence of a valid marriage).
	www.niqabiparalegal.com /archives/005748.php (1980 words)

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		Perhaps that's why God chose the polygamous marriage of Solomon and his Shulamite in The Song of Solomon to be the model for marriage in Israel and the marriage model for His relationship to Israel>95.
		A ministering polygamist in a leadership position would be more likely to be tempted to accept the advances/ propositions of an unmarried sister in the church who falls in love with him and he with her.
		Apparently he maintains that polygamous wives are often driven to adultery by the sinful neglect)>23 of their husbands, and may have to bribe their husbands away from their other wives, resulting in very unsatisfying sexual relations for the wives.>63.
	www.etext.org /Religious.Texts/Polyamory/PolygamyConcubines.txt (20287 words)

	ChildBrides.org
		Hope for the Child Brides is a St. George, Utah based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to assisting survivors of abuse within polygamous relationships on their courageous journey to personal freedom.
		We are advocates working to make a difference in the lives of the women and children who are often oppressed and living in intellectual and physical isolation.
		We are informing the general public about the allegations of physical, psychological, sexual, and financial abuses occurring within the polygamous communities.
	www.childbrides.org (466 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / In Arizona town, polygamous Mormon sect tightens its borders
		Those expelled have left the polygamous community, which straddles Arizona and Utah.
		Colorado City and adjoining Hildale, Utah, are strongholds of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a splinter group of the Mormon faith.
		The two towns of roughly 7,500 residents are essentially one community, the largest polygamous enclave in the nation, where almost every man has more than one wife.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/02/01/in_arizona_town_polygamous_mormon_sect_tightens_its_borders (521 words)

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