They're polygamous while humans usually aren't, and being polygamous might make it more important to have lots of sex.
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The polygamous regions of Haiti and Indonesia are the most turbulent.
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It is also polygamous: 247% of married women share a husband.
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The killings highlight the long history of polygamous settlers there. 6.
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Let's assume Barash is right and humans are polygamous by nature.
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But the polygamous structure can also bring stability in a changing world.
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Other primates -- the mammalian group, to which humans belong -- are still polygamous, too.
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Another writer, Sa'adatu Baba Ahmed, had to marry her late husband's polygamous brother.
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Beautiful Bathsheba, a sex object in the eyes of the polygamous King David.
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Women were to be monogamous, while men were to be polygamous, Nxivm taught.
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Polygamous nations are more likely to invade their neighbours and to have civil wars.
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And girls as young as 12 were forced into polygamous unions with older men.
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Gordon is maybe a prophet, or a militia separatist or a polygamous child abuser.
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For Akech, the South Sudanese aid worker, growing up in a polygamous family "wasn't easy".
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"In East Africa, we found that actually some of the women within polygamous households did much better in terms of their ability to respond and adapt than separated or divorced women, because polygamous men tended to be the better off, with more resources," says Rao.
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Though the group espoused polygamous intentions, none of the men had multiple adult wives, he said.
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Book readers always wondered two things: Did Elia know about Lyanna and approve, making their relationship polygamous?
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Polygamous societies are bloodier, more likely to invade their neighbours and more prone to collapse than others are.
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In Turkey, even though polygamous marriages are not uncommon, only the first wife is entitled to legal rights.
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Professor Marston & The Wonder Women delves into the superhero's creator, his interest in bondage, and his polygamous relationship.
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We might assume that we're in the territory of the Branch Davidians or a polygamous quasi-Mormon sect.
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He shares a last name and a not-too-distant relation with the polygamous LeBaron group in Chihuahua, Mexico.
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The team also stresses that the STDs would have been a form of punishment for those who were polygamous.
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Several denominations have splintered off from the mainstream church over the years, including a number of controversial polygamous sects.
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Pragmatism aside, Jackman views today's announcement as a step forward in the struggle of polygamous communities for legal equality.
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From Israel, a drama, set in the polygamous Bedouin culture, that won the world cinema grand jury prize at Sundance.
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Although the church officially abandoned plural marriages in 1890, it was a defiantly polygamous theocracy in the mid-19th century.
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There he embraces Mary and continues this life, eventually in what seems to be a polygamous relationship with both sisters.
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Growing up as a devout fundamentalist Mormon in a polygamous family, Mariah Brown struggled to come to terms with her sexuality.
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Canada has advised UNHCR, the UN's agency for refugees, not to refer any refugees in polygamous marriages to Canada for resettlement.
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Why polygamy breeds civil war | March 20163 The 20 most fragile states in the world are all somewhat or very polygamous.
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Lyle Jeffs, the alleged leader of the polygamous FLDS Church, is wanted for fleeing from his home pending trial, PEOPLE confirms.
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Across the country nearly a third of married women are thought to be in polygamous marriages, according to a NORAD survey.
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The government, according to this view, may legitimately withhold the benefits of marriage from adults in polygamous relationships (on grounds that such relationships characteristically deprive children of material and emotional resources from their father), but may not prosecute them, as is currently possible in some states, for polygamous cohabitation (because this is private consensual sexual activity).
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But Utah Federal Solicitor Parker Douglas said the state had a legitimate interest in prosecuting abuses that can arise in polygamous relationships.
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Although women in a polygamous society find it relatively easy to get married, the quality of their marriages may not be high.
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For example polygamous marriages, temporary marriages amongst Shia Muslims and nowadays young Muslims of all sects…[and] marriages between adults and children.
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"I felt like a prisoner," says Julianna, now 34, who was raised in a polygamous Mormon breakaway group called the Kingston Clan.
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She was raised in the polygamous Children of God cult, though her family fled when its leadership started encouraging sex with children.
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Paige's feud with Patrick has been ongoing since their debut on the reality show, which follows couples who are searching for polygamous relationships.
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DNA showed that polygamous species had less genetic structure, meaning fewer subgroup-specific patterns as well as fewer subspecies than the monogamous species.
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Most women in the region are in polygamous marriages with men taking at least two or three wives to help farm the land.
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Poverty reaches 46 percent in households where the woman is married to a polygamous man who does not live with her, it says.
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ET on TLC, followed by the season 2 premiere of Seeking Sister Wife, which explores the unfamiliar world of polygamous courtship, at 10 p.m.
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On Saturday's Say Yes to the Dress, Kleinfeld bridal salon welcomes its a first polygamous throuple: Jennifer, her fiancé Peter and Peter's wife Ellen.
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According to an Associated Press report, leaders of a polygamous community there were among 11 people charged with food-stamp fraud and money laundering.
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If you're monogamous, you can usually trust that your partner isn't having sex with lots of other people; being polygamous comes with no such promise.
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The proximity to the border is no accident: For a group persecuted for decades for their polygamous lifestyle, it provides a useful blurring of jurisdiction.
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While campaigners say women and children in polygamous unions need better protection if the relationship falls apart, most are against outlawing a culturally-entrenched practice.
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Not only do male rheas incubate their eggs, but these birds are also polygamous; males may tend to the eggs of multiple females at once.
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I've cultivated that distance while reporting on mass shooting survivors, and women who'd left a polygamous sect, and Syrian refugees attempting to rebuild their lives.
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Some argue the bill won't protect victims Some people in Utah's polygamous communities spoke in favor of the bill at a committee hearing on Monday.
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A study of 240,000 children in 29 African countries found that, after controlling for other factors, those in polygamous families were more likely to die young.
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Lyle Jeffs runs the day-to-day operations in the polygamous community of Hildale, while Seth Jeffs leads a branch of the group in South Dakota.
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During his time in the Order, Val worked as a cook in one of the sect's schools and would occasionally bake wedding cakes for polygamous marriages.
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To justify leaving his wife of nearly 30 years for a girlfriend in 2016, Mr. Alvarez claimed to be a member of the polygamous Manobo tribe.
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That said, just because you build a Sept doesn't mean that all your ancestors will change their polygamous ways to suit the Faith of the Seven's rules.
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In practice, courts and authorities in democratic countries have often accorded some recognition to polygamous unions forged elsewhere when adjudicating, say, social-security benefits or child custody.
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Brown told The Salt Late Tribune on Friday that keeping polygamy a crime makes polygamous families afraid to call ambulances or social services that can help them.
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Almost 1.5 million Kenyans - or 10 percent of the married population - are in a polygamous marriage, according to latest data from the Kenya Population and Housing Census.
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But others who had left polygamous communities opposed the bill, arguing that abuse victims would still be afraid to report out of fear from their religious leaders.
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Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs earned a spot on the list in 2006 following charges of sexual assault of a minor and being an accomplice to rape.
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Since 2010, Sister Wives has documented the polygamous lifestyle of Brown, who was legally married to his first wife Meri and "spiritually" married to Christine, Janelle, and Robyn.
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Those who leave polygamous relationships because they feared harm, coercion, are underage, or are trying to protect a minor in the plural family would be shielded from prosecution.
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"Like Persians, Hindoos and Musselmen, [polygamous Mormons will] fill their houses with the blooming beauties of the North, and the witching women of the South," New York Rep.
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Angered over his excommunication and the collapse of his marriage, Mr. Lafferty formed a breakaway polygamous sect with his brothers called the School of the Prophets in 1984.
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The McGees were introduced to audiences in season 2 of the TLC show ... which follows the journey of families as they go out in search of polygamous relationships.
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In that ruling, the chief justice noted that polygamous women suffered increased instances of abuse as did the children born of those relationships, according to the New York Times.
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In "Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" (1995), Mr Obama put his unconventional upbringing—a Kansas mother and an absentee polygamous tribesman father—on display.
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Since subspecies and genetic differences would be the first signs of new species emerging, the team concluded the polygamous plovers were diversifying more slowly than than the monogamous ones.
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Salt Lake City (CNN)These are dark days for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the reclusive polygamous sect led by imprisoned prophet Warren Jeffs.
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The stories cite Fakti, a Copenhagen-based organization that offers services to immigrant and refugee women, as saying one-third of the women they assist are in polygamous relationships.
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Anika Liversage, a senior researcher at the Danish Center for Social Science Research, found in a 2011 study on polygamous marriages that the practice is not common in Denmark.
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Mtisi says her shelter in the town of Espungabera takes in 30 widows a year who have been in polygamous marriages and were kicked out when their husbands died.
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Lyle Jeffs is known to run the day-to-day operations of the polygamous community in Hildale, Utah, while Warren Jeffs handles legal and tax issues for the group.
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Incidentally, Aguirre-Sacasa, along with Riverdale writer Aaron Allen, also worked on HBO's Big Love — a Mad Men-era prestige drama about the intersecting relationships in a polygamous Mormon household.
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Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma, however, said the immigration official's principled approach on marriage was "inconsistent", as some polygamous couples get exceptions, as well as same-sex spouses of consular staff.
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Previous cases in Utah, Arizona and Texas have focused on Warren Jeffs and his practice of arranging polygamous marriages between girls younger than 18 and already married, older church leaders.
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If a man marries a woman who is not a virgin, he said she must then find a virgin for her husband to marry in a polygamous union as compensation.
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Zuma, a 73-year-old polygamous Zulu traditionalist, has been under intense criticism since December when his sacking of finance minister Nhlanhla Nene sent the rand into a tail-spin.
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Brown, your son is living in a gluten-free polygamous coding commune and wants to drill into the center of the Earth, you might want to pick him up now.
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There lives Ross LeBaron Jr., a descendant of another polygamous sect (separate from the FLDS but quite similar in practice) called the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times.
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According to Noel and a handful of former polygamists women who support his bill, closed polygamous communities can have widespread problems – including sexual abuse, child abuse, welfare fraud and forced labor.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Next month&aposs municipal election in Hildale, Utah, could give the town its first mayor and City Council members who don&apost claim affiliation with a polygamous sect.
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Two polygamous towns in Arizona and Utah violated the constitutional rights of nonbelievers by denying them basic services such as police protection, building permits and water hookups, a jury said Monday.
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Almost 43 percent of households where the man is in a polygamous union are poor compared to 27 percent of those in monogamous unions, says the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.
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The victims belonged to the LeBarón family, members of a Mormon community who settled in northern Mexico in the 1920s and separated from the mainstream church when it abandoned polygamous marriages.
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Mormons — forged from a polygamous theocracy in the Rocky Mountain West, tainted by decades of institutional racism and still very much opposed to marriage equality — to the rescue of the Republic?
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"When referring to people or organizations that practice polygamy, it should be stated that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not affiliated with polygamous groups," the guide states.
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Polygamous societies suffer "higher rates of murder, theft, rape, social disruption, kidnapping (especially of females), sexual slavery and prostitution," note Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson in "The Puzzle of Monogamy".
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The other day, a friend of mine posted on Facebook that she appreciated how Orange Is the New Black's fifth season presented a polygamous Muslim character in a nuanced, non-stereotypical way.
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In polygamous households, an age hierarchy determines a wife's agency: Elder women are the authority figures, for instance determining who eats what, and will dispatch younger women to walk to find ingredients.
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After World War II, France, looking to increase its labor supply, allowed the immigration of polygamous families from Africa — only to encounter difficulties with coerced marriages and excessive demand for government benefits.
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Shirlee Draper, a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), said she decided to leave the polygamous community when leader Warren Jeffs rose to power.
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Salt Lake City, Utah (CNN)A decade after the arrest of polygamous prophet Warren Jeffs, insiders say his church has literally become a place of feast or famine, of haves and have-nots.
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In a rush to dismantle the so-called caliphate, Washington has assembled and empowered a host of sectarian actors with antagonistic agendas who have been forced into a tenuous polygamous marriage of convenience.
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"We joked we had to tell the neighbors we weren't polygamous because there were so many of us — teenagers, a couple of women, a baby here and there, and Brian," Ms. Gardner said.
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National Briefing | Rockies Several top leaders from Warren Jeffs's polygamous sect were arrested Tuesday on federal accusations of food stamp fraud and money laundering, one of the biggest blows to the group in years.
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The jury also issued a non-binding verdict finding that the cities' joint police department operated as an "arm" of the Utah-based polygamous church, subjecting non-members to unconstitutional stops, seizures and arrests.
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But campaigners say most polygamous marriages in Kenya, and other African nations, are fuelling poverty - with husbands neglecting one family over another - leaving thousands of women and children impoverished and easy prey for exploitation.
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Deidre Henderson, the bill's lead sponsor, called Utah's current law unenforceable, saying that it doesn't prevent people from engaging in polygamy but instead isolates polygamous communities and prevents from potential victims from reporting abuse.
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Askerlund&aposs selection follows the election victory last November of Hildale Mayor Donia Jessop, a former FLDS member who became the first woman and first non-member of the polygamous sect to hold the seat.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Several top leaders from Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect were arrested Tuesday on federal accusations of food stamp fraud and money laundering — marking one of the biggest blows to the group in years.
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"Those polygamous families in Mexico who went back into the United States during the Mexican Revolution faced prosecution not only from their monogamous nation, but also ostracism from their own church members," Jones Brown said.
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The polygamous enclaves in America run by breakaway Mormon sects are highly unstable—the old men in charge expel large numbers of young men for trivial offences so they can marry lots of young women themselves.
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A civil rights trial against the twin polygamous towns of Hildale and Colorado City, Arizona, is underway in Phoenix, in which prosecutors say they discriminated against nonbelievers by denying them housing, water services and police protection.
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In the 1950s, Joel LeBarón had helped establish the community in northern Mexico in order to pursue a polygamous Mormon life, said Ruth Wariner, who was the 39th of 42 children Joel had with six wives.
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A few weeks ago, Lyle Jeffs, the polygamous leader of the Fundamentalist LDS Church, made headlines when it was discovered that he had somehow managed to escape from home confinement following a delay in his trial.
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" That same year, Mr. Prager suggested that if same-sex marriage were legalized, then "there is no plausible argument for denying polygamous relationships, or brothers and sisters, or parents and adult children, the right to marry.
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Deidre Henderson (R) said the bill was intended to allow members of polygamous communities who might be victims of crimes or need medical or mental health care services to come forward without fear of legal consequences.
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Gathering on the steps of the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City, the reality stars joined hundreds of others polygamous people and supporters in protest of a bill that would keep polygamy a felony in Utah.
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A parcel of land in their name that they can pass on to their own children is especially important in polygamous household where they may not be guaranteed a fair share of inheritance if their husband dies.
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HILDALE, Utah – In a place where political contests are virtually unknown, the campaign signs offer the latest hint that a polygamous group is losing its grip on this remote red rock community straddling the Utah-Arizona border.
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While he has no way to know how many polygamous marriages his sites may have facilitated, Mr. Chaiwala said he had received more than 100 letters from users thanking him for guiding them toward multiple-marital bliss.
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Lise-Lotte Duch, who leads Fakti, told The Associated Press that many of the Muslim women they serve have been living in the country for years, and that it&aposs likely not many are in polygamous relationships.
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A report on gender issues and the effect of coal mining in the Mui Basin prepared last year with Canadian government support also highlighted the need to ensure fair compensation for land women who live in polygamous households.
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The first article in the document affirms that "God has designed marriage to be a covenantal, sexual, procreative, lifelong union of one man and one woman, as husband and wife" and not for "homosexual, polygamous, or polyamorous" relationships.
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The event was open to all ex-FLDS (as well as any current FLDS members curious about life on the outside), and it also welcomed women who'd recently fled the Kingston clan, a polygamous sect in Salt Lake City.
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Lafe Langford of La Mora, a relative of those killed, said many of his community are lapsed Mormons, few are in polygamous relationships and residents do not tolerate the kind of Mormon prophets Colonia LeBaron has a history of.
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They called for the government to enforce a law to register customary polygamous marriages, so that women would have official evidence of the marriage - making it easier for them to claim child maintenance or the husband's assets or property.
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"We don't have a strong level of male competition in humans, because our main mating strategies are monogamous or polygamous," she says, arguing that this means there is no evolutionary incentive for human males to stay harder for longer.
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While complications might arise in a British court because the marriage was polygamous, he said, wealthy international couples with complicated circumstances often hold out-of-court settlement talks in London in part because of the legal system's privacy protections.
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While complications might arise in a British court because the marriage was polygamous, he said, wealthy international couples with complicated circumstances often hold out-of-court settlement talks in London in part because of the legal system's privacy protections.
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All of this is to say that incest and inbreeding have been going on for so long—and so prevalently—in the polygamous sects along the Utah/Arizona border that these stories have been woven into the fiber of the communities.
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The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) is a polygamous sect straddling the Utah and Arizona state lines; the twin towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, are known collectively as Short Creek (pronounced "crick").
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Shortly after Waddoups struck down the law, a woman alleged that her polygamous husband had shunned her and planned to "sell" their daughter and a niece, and he was not able to use the bigamy law in prosecution, Douglas said.
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In an exclusive clip from the TLC series, the mother-daughter pair, joined by Mariah's girlfriend Audrey Kriss, enter their first gay bar together, over a year after the 22-year-old told her polygamous Mormon family that she is gay.
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Take a moment to imagine the consequences of these shortcomings, not only in terms of managing large and youthful populations, often the result of polygamous families, in places where illiteracy rate may exceed 70 percent, but in terms of global security.
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After tracing the evolution of the penis bone through 27 generations, the researchers found that polygamous species have much thicker penis bones than monogamous species, which supports the idea that the bacula is important for those who need to have more sex.
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This is one of the reasons why the Arab Spring erupted, why the jihadists of Boko Haram and Islamic State were able to conquer swathes of Nigeria, Iraq and Syria, and why the polygamous parts of Indonesia and Haiti are so turbulent.
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Often the first sign officials have of a polygamous relationship is when it comes to light in a case of domestic abuse, says Shalini Konanur of the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario, which helps women in violent relationships who risk deportation.
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Like their country cousins on the Utah/Arizona border, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the Order is a tight-knit polygamous community, practicing arranged plural marriage between underage girls and much older men, very often close relatives.
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Modeled unmistakably on the clothing worn by the women of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints, who suffered rampant violence at the hands of their community's men, Kimmy's costume tells us she was raped long before the character admits it herself.
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Before last year's elections, his government enacted a law entitled the "Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Practices Act" which reinforced existing legislation on polygamy, forced marriage and honour killings; for example, it barred people who had contracted polygamous unions in other countries from entering Canada.
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Virtually everyone in Bountiful has relatives in both camps, and members of both groups—as well as polygamous residents who remain neutral in the schism—are beneficiaries of the Utah-based land trust that holds Bountiful's 2150 acres and the 2000 homes on it.
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The tone was calm and nuanced, with his polygamous father's cruelty toward his mother coming in for as much criticism as the arrogance of British officialdom, and due recognition paid white teachers at Alliance High School, who opened up the world to questing African pupils.
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Lyle Jeffs, the leader of a polygamous breakaway sect of the Mormon Church, has been arrested nearly a year after he slipped out of home confinement in Salt Lake City where he is facing fraud and money laundering charges, the authorities said on Thursday.
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The film looks surprisingly engaging (particularly thanks to Rebecca Hall) for a biopic about an obscure figure, but I'm very curious to see if it also highlights Marston's darker side: according to one biography of him, he essentially forced his wife into agreeing to a polygamous marriage.
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The Arizona judge's ruling, which follows a jury verdict in March of last year, caps a yearslong lawsuit brought by the DOJ against the joint police force of the community, known as Short Creek and made up of the polygamous followers of imprisoned church leader Warren Jeffs.
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The leader of a polygamous breakaway sect of the Mormon Church has gone on the run less than two weeks after he was released from jail and confined to a home in Salt Lake City pending a trial on fraud and money laundering charges, officials said.
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The bill's Republican sponsor, Senator Deidre Henderson, has said her intent is not to legalize polygamy but to decriminalize it so that those from polygamous communities who are victims of crimes can come forward for help or to seek social services without fear of being prosecuted themselves.
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The twin towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah––a community that is collectively known as Short Creek and is home to thousands of members of a polygamous cult called the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS)––were raided Tuesday morning by the FBI.
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SALT LAKE CITY – A polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border has hired an outsider as its new police chief, selecting a retired Salt Lake City area police officer with no ties to the fundamentalist Mormon group that controlled the town for a century until federal government crackdowns.
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Burly and middle-aged with a mop of brown hair, Jessop spent more than a decade as security chief and spokesman for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous sect that split from the mainstream Mormon church at the turn of the last century.
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During the 19th-century, the popular press and even the halls of government teemed with stories about precisely such Mormon depredations — lurid, and generally fictional, tales of polygamous LDS men who savored entire stables of wives, discarding these women long before they hit Trump's 35-year expiration date.
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Set in the politically explosive Nigeria of the 1980s, breakout novelist Ayobami Adebayo's deceptively slender debut, Stay With Me, focuses on the marriage of Yejide and Akin — a young, middle-class couple who have sworn off their culture's polygamous traditions and are ready to start a family of their own.
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After 22019 years of patient work in a polygamous Hausa society in northern Nigeria, the Centre for Girl-Child Education, colleagues of ours who conduct operations research in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, developed an approach that raised girls' secondary school enrollment from 4 to 82 percent, according to the organization.
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"My concern is all this is going to do is drive the good polygamous people who don't have those abuses more into hiding, and it's going to make the people who do have those abuses just be able to do them even more," Meri Brown, one of Kody Brown's "spiritual" wives, told the newspaper.
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Most of the 10,000 people who live in these towns live by the rules of the cloistered world they inhabit and the dictates of a polygamous sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose prophet, Warren S. Jeffs, is serving a life sentence for the sexual assault of underage girls he said were his wives.
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As a member of a faith that still teaches its men that righteous living in the here and now will be rewarded with polygamous godhood in the afterlife — a faith that envisions a celestial plentitude of pristine "wives and daughters" to be the deserving man's heaven — Romney's attention to the circumstances faced by actual women seems secondary to his concerns about the country's image.
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The FLDS started out as a few fringe families in the late 1890s; as more seeking to follow the principal of plural marriage moved to the polygamous towns in the early-to-mid 20053th century, the gene pool grew, but by the 90s, under the stricter control of prophet Rulon Jeffs (Warren's father), they were tightening up and selectively marrying and breeding in a sort of misfired eugenics experiment that ultimately yielded its own genetic disorder: fumarase deficiency (FD), otherwise known as Polygamist Down's.
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