It is fascinating to see the attention that Polygamy Activism is now getting.
Click “here” for Time Magazine’s take:
Archive for the ‘About Polygamy’ Category
Time – Top 10 Everything of 2012: Polygamy Activism is #5
Posted in About Polygamy, Government, Rights on December 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »
How Polygamy Works
Posted in About Polygamy, Family Life, Rights on July 31, 2012| 1 Comment »
We found the following article published in Salon interesting and informative…
Polygamist Elizabeth Joseph writes that if polygamy didn’t exist, “the modern American career woman would have invented it. Because, despite its reputation, polygamy is the one lifestyle that offers an independent woman a real chance to ‘have it all’”. Elizabeth, who worked as a journalist, relied on her co-wives to help her with child care and meal preparation. She called it a “free-market approach to marriage” that allowed her to pick the best man available, regardless of his marital status. Click here to continue reading…
Peeling the Onion
Posted in About Polygamy, Family Life, Government, Rights on September 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Polygamy advocate Mark Henkel provides great arguments for Polygamy:
A Snapshot of Polygamy: Stories (Part 1)
Posted in About Polygamy, Community, Family Life, Government, Rights, School on August 8, 2011| 1 Comment »
I grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine was a young suburb filled with new trees planted in the easement strip. Dotted and dashed along the sidewalk, driveways stitching neighbors into the commonness of the neighborhood. On each side of us and in just about each home on the street were kids my age and most in my class at school. Young families, filled with promise, living the American Dream. All were equal, right? It was supposed, but not practiced.
A Feminist Studies Mormon Polygamy And, Remarkably, Finds That It Liberated the Wives
Posted in About Polygamy, Community, Family Life, Rights on August 2, 2011| 2 Comments »
- Here’s an interesting archive from the July 10, 1978 Vol. 10 No. 2 edition of People Magazine.
A Feminist Studies Mormon Polygamy And, Remarkably, Finds That It Liberated the Wives
By Linda Witt
For her Ph.D. thesis in counseling psychology at Northwestern University, Utah-born Vicky Burgess-Olson felt herself drawn to an examination of her Mormon roots and the peculiar institution of early Mormon families—polygamy. The great-great-granddaughter of a man with four wives, Dr. Burgess-Olson, 33, studied the diaries kept by Mormon pioneer women between 1847 and 1885. She followed up her ground-breaking research by editing Sister Saints, a study of 19th-century Mormon women, published by Brigham Young University. A confirmed feminist and mother of two sons and two daughters, Burgess-Olson recently completed summer training at Fort Sam Houston as a major in the U.S. Army Reserve. She is a school psychologist in Provo, Utah, where her husband, Eric Olson, 34, an Egyptologist, teaches at Brigham Young. Dr. Burgess-Olson talked with Linda Witt of PEOPLE about her research.
The paradox of polygamy II: Why most women benefit from polygamy and most men benefit from monogamy
Posted in About Polygamy, Family Life, Government, Rights on August 2, 2011| 5 Comments »
The paradox of polygamy II: Why most women benefit from polygamy and most men benefit from monogamy
By Satoshi Kanazawa
Created Feb 21 2008 – 7:10pm
Contrary to popular belief, most women benefit from polygynous society, and most men benefit from monogamous society. This is because polygynous society allows some women to share a resourceful man of high status. George Bernard Shaw (who was one of the founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science where I teach) put it best, when he observed, “The maternal instinct leads a woman to prefer a tenth share in a first rate man to the exclusive possession of a third rate one.”
The paradox of polygamy I: Why most Americans are polygamous
Posted in About Polygamy, Family Life, Rights on August 2, 2011| 4 Comments »
The paradox of polygamy I: Why most Americans are polygamous
By Satoshi Kanazawa
Created Feb 17 2008 – 8:07am
Polygyny has been in the public eye and many Americans’ water-cooler conversations lately, from the success of the HBO series Big Love to the trial of the Mormon sect leader Warren Jeffs. Most Americans consider polygynous marriage to be exotic, unusual, bizarre, and even morally wrong, hence the attraction of Big Love or the titillation of the Jeffs’ trial. But polygyny is not that exotic; many — even most — Americans are already in polygynous marriages.
The Present State of Our Polygamous Future
Posted in About Polygamy, Family Life, Government, Rights on July 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The Present State of Our Polygamous Future
Jul 20, 2011
Joe Carter
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2011/07/the-present-state-of-our-polygamous-future
In an interview on the science in science fiction, novelist William Gibson noted, “[T]he future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” What Gibson meant was that the innovations in science fiction could already be found—at least in embryonic form—in our current ideas or technology. Much the same could be said about future social and legal norms concerning the institution of marriage—they are already here, they’re just not evenly distributed yet.
Polygamy Law: Freedom vs Harm
Posted in About Polygamy, Canada, Government, Rights on February 2, 2011| 7 Comments »
This blog post from “Progressive Proselytizing” caught our attention:
On the Morality of Polygamy Law: Freedom vs Harm
Should polygamy be legal? This question is at the core of the landmark polygamy case slowly working its way up the Canadian justice system. To answer this, we look at the balance between harm and freedom. The balance in this case is contrasted to the case of gay marriage.
We may not like Polygamy, but Decriminalization makes sense
Posted in About Polygamy, Community, Family Life, Government, Rights on December 17, 2010| 1 Comment »
The following article from the Globe and Mail, written by Marina Adshade (economist at Dalhousie University) makes an interesting arguement for decriminalization:
The overwhelming majority of Canadians do not want to live in a polygamous household and, from an economic perspective, that observation is a bit of a mystery.
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