Summary: The Perils Of Polygamy

Of course, along with sexual abuse there is also physical abuse found in polygamist homes. Water torture is an abuse often affiliated with polygamy, Jessop explains what it is, “ A baby may be crying because it is hungry they would take the baby and spank it to really get it going. Then they hold the baby face-up under the cold running water for 30 seconds, and as soon as it gets its breath and starts crying, they’d spank it again” (qtd. in Savage 1). Water torture is one of the many abusive tactics that are used in polygamous homes. Because polygamy promotes abuse such as water torture it needs to be stopped. Sometimes the abuse in polygamist homes becomes too much and becomes something more. In the article, “The Perils of Polygamy” Christoper Kaczor implies that having sister wives brings a great danger to the

With each wife that is married there are more children to come as well. According to Brent Jeffs in the article, “From Polygamist Royalty to FLDS Lost Boy” polygamy often times leads to poor parenting, “I’d estimate that maybe one in five FLDS families have lost a child early in life, frequently from accidents that better supervision could have prevented” (1). Because polygamist families bear countless children it is near impossible for each and every single child to get the same attention. Libby Copeland in the article, “Is Polygamy Really So Awful”, talks about a study done on, “19th-century Mormon households, 45 of them headed by wealthy men, generally with multiple wives, and 45 headed by poorer men, generally with one wife each. What’s surprising is that the children of the poorer men actually fared better, proving more likely to survive to age 15” (1). Any good parent is always looking out for their children’s best interest; studies show again and again polygamy is not in their best