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Please remember, there are very good articles written by LDS authors that show this article to be wrong.
Study both sides and don't be duped.
Make your own decision.
I have studied both sides. And I can tell you there is nothing good about polygamy, at least for the women.
I have read Ann Young's book about her live as Brigham Young's 19th wife.
It was hell on earth.
Did you know Brigham taught that it was wrong to live with you wife if she was old?
Those women were never treated equally. Brigham always had a favorite wife. And for the evening meals, all the wives and kids would sit at a table with plain food. Brigham and his favorite wife would sit at another table with all the succulent delicacies a person could want.
He married widows in order to con them out of their property.
He ordered men to take multiple wives even if they didn't want to.
He told them they must 'live up to their privileges'.
Women were not loved by their husbands, they became property. As one of the Apostles said, "I think no more of getting another wife than I do of buying another cow." And it wasn't peaches and cream in the world of polygamy. Wives fought with each other. A lot. They hated each other.
So the last thing that polygamy ever was, was beautiful.