That’s a huge assumption. Maybe she just liked it. Some of these women obviously do. I certainly wouldn’t, but some of them seem quite content.
In the 1900’s, about 3 percent of the Mormons in Utah practiced polygamy. It was almost always practiced by the men who had sufficient means to support a bunch of women.
Anyway, some of the women liked having “sister wives.” For some of them, it freed them up to pursue careers, while still having children. Some women were sent off to schools. I remember reading about one who went back East medical school, while her “sister wives” cared for her children. In an odd sort of way (and certainly not one I would ever want to emulate) some of the women in polygamous marriages were liberated in ways that other women of the day were not. Utah was, I think, the first state to give women the vote.
On the other hand, there were women ended up feeling sad about the arrangement, and suffered the kind of jealousy and unhappiness that most of us would imagine we would feel in those circumstances.
“Maybe she just liked it. Some of these women obviously do”
Sure, there were the ‘bad’ things, but once you get past 18, you don’t have to deal with it much anymore.
It isn’t easy as a single, stay at home mom, with three children, living off welfare, trying to buy your kid a PS3.
What happens when you are sick? Or having PMS?
Now, there may be a ‘lot’ of kids in an FLDS family, but there are a lot of Moms.
Enough that the babysitting, nursing!, cleaning the ‘house’, can be shared so that no one has to be overburdened. Besides, the boys are sent out to work from the time they are 8, for a full day, and you don’t even have to deal with them.
And money? No problem. You have no bills. Everything is paid for out of the UEP.
Your biggest concern in life is your quilting skills. And the End of the World. After all, that’s why JEFFS built the temple at the YFZ Ranch.