What happened to the poor guys with no wives at all during the Mormon polygamous phase?
Yeah, but the other thing, is that the more wives there are per husband, the more quicker the population can grow. So, in a way, Mormons had a tremendous population growth. Also, why do you act like Mormons were the ONLY ones that did it? It’s even mentioned in the BIBLE of all places. Anyway, I don’t know what happened to the guys. Maybe some guys didn’t want to get married, I don’t know. Oh, I know! Perhaps, at the very beginning they had a lot of WOMEN converts, and not a lot of male converts, so there really weren’t any males that were starving for wives. Also, I think polygamy was practicedfor a few generations, after which it was stopped, so in that case, it wasn’t a long-term thing, also, during that time, the population grew, which means that thousands of boys and girls were born out of those polygamous marriages. It was actually a survival mechanism. It seemed to have worked, too.
I’ve wondered about that too. Their were actually more men than women in Utah starting from the first census in 1850. There were never more men killed due to ‘persecution’. That is a total myth. No one can name any. Women died more often than men due to childbirth and the difficulties of life on the frontier. It’s always harder on women than men. I think a lot of the demand was met because men missionaries were very active in Europe and they tend to attract women converts more than men. There are lots of stories about missionaries bringing home wives with them. It also helped that there were only 2-3 generations where they practiced it, and they just didn’t get into the child brides and expelled young men that plagues the FLDS. It would have caught up with them if they’d done it longer. There is no good solution other than sending the excess men to war. As usual, the Mormons have their facts wrong. There were as many as 44% of LDS women in polygamy at the peak. Once during the politica
