Monday, April 15, 2013

Sister Wives

  Sister Wives is a very popular show on the TLC network. Not much appears 'typical' about this family, which includes four wives to one man (Kody Brown) and 14 children, three of whom came from a previous marriage of the youngest and newest wife, Robyn. The most interesting aspect of the Brown family is their stance on polygamy, and their bravery by entering the public forum under the scope of glaring, critical, societal views of polygamy.
  Legally speaking, Kody Brown technically only married his first wife, Meri. Though conflict frequently occurs amidst tensions of four women sharing one husband, the family continually preaches the teachings of John Smith, the originator of Mormon belief, who reportedly had more than 30 wives, including a young teenager. Fundamentalist Mormons believe polygamy is an essential part of attaining access to Heaven, despite complete dissociation from The Church of Latter-Day Saints, which hasn't paid attention to Fundamentalist views since the late 1800s.
  The Brown family attempts to show the prospect of polygamy from a positive perspective, but all members involved have faced large legal consequences.


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