A woman with five husbands would be far more impressive.

bitflipper
A woman with five husbands would be far more impressive.

.....and probably a bit dangerous.

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2006/05/how-polygamy-affects-your-wallet.html
 
 

Starise
 
 
I knew poligamy was legal in Utah.I didn't think anyone actually did it...and 5 wives.

 
Part of the law against bigamy in Utah was struck down by a federal court, but the gist of the prohibition remains in force:
https://ecf.utd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?211cv0652-78
 
"The court finds the cohabitation prong of the Statute unconstitutional on numerous grounds and strikes it. As a result, and to save the Statute, the court adopts the interpretation of “marry” and “purports to marry,” and the resulting narrowing construction of the Statute, offered by the dissent in State of Utah v. Holm, 2006 UT 31, 131-53, 137 P.3d 726, 758-66, thus allowing the Statute to remain in force as prohibiting bigamy in the literal sense—the fraudulent or otherwise impermissible possession of two purportedly valid marriage licenses for the purpose of entering into more than one purportedly legal marriage."
 
Basically, you are allowed to legally marry only one wife, but you can live together with as many women as you can convince to do so. Presumably you can do that without marrying anyone as well.
 

slartabartfast

Starise
 
 
I knew poligamy was legal in Utah.I didn't think anyone actually did it...and 5 wives.

 
Part of the law against bigamy in Utah was struck down by a federal court, but the gist of the prohibition remains in force:
https://ecf.utd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?211cv0652-78
 
"The court finds the cohabitation prong of the Statute unconstitutional on numerous grounds and strikes it. As a result, and to save the Statute, the court adopts the interpretation of “marry” and “purports to marry,” and the resulting narrowing construction of the Statute, offered by the dissent in State of Utah v. Holm, 2006 UT 31, 131-53, 137 P.3d 726, 758-66, thus allowing the Statute to remain in force as prohibiting bigamy in the literal sense—the fraudulent or otherwise impermissible possession of two purportedly valid marriage licenses for the purpose of entering into more than one purportedly legal marriage."
 
Basically, you are allowed to legally marry only one wife, but you can live together with as many women as you can convince to do so. Presumably you can do that without marrying anyone as well.
 

Exactly, and as a result (from the link I posted above):
 
"Polygamists have multiple wives and dozens of children, but the state only recognizes one marriage. That leaves the rest of the wives to claim themselves as single moms with armies of children to support. Doing that means they can apply for welfare, which they do. And it's all legal.

"More than 65 percent of the people are on welfare ... compared with 6 percent of the people of the general population," Shurtleff said."

So that means they are not really married. They just think and say they are.

One headache is enough.
(Say, the comment above states he spends one night a week with each, so is he out looking for two more or are those his "bowling league" nights?  )

Rain
Exactly, and as a result (from the link I posted above):
 
"Polygamists have multiple wives and dozens of children, but the state only recognizes one marriage. That leaves the rest of the wives to claim themselves as single moms with armies of children to support. Doing that means they can apply for welfare, which they do. And it's all legal.

"More than 65 percent of the people are on welfare ... compared with 6 percent of the people of the general population," Shurtleff said."

And again, applying successfully for welfare can be done without anyone marrying anyone.

I knew a guy with four wives, in Saudi Arabia. While poligamy is not uncommon, 4 is considered to be a lot. One of the rules is you have to be able to demonstrate you can support them before the marrage.

They likely all share the same house. Still, I can't imagine the pandemonium in that house.
 
One family in this area has 25 kids.... yep, as far as I know, it's one mom and one dad.... who seemingly have never heard of modern birth control.  I believe, if I remember the story correctly, they are all their natural kids. None are adopted. Due to their ages, many of the kids are now out on their own so they're not all living in the house.
 
This family made the local newspaper a number of years ago when they were given a new house by the Habitat folks. My wife is a school teacher and has had many of the kids from that family in her classes through the years.