Utah has enacted tough penalties for polygamy in recent years, in a bid to move past the state's complicated history with the practice. But a state senator now wants to reverse the crackdown and make ...

CANE BEDS, Ariz. (AP) – Ben Bistline starts to chuckle when asked to explain why the practice of polygamy persists. The outside world, he says, just doesn’t get it. “We just grew up in polygamy,” said ...

Escaping Polygamy is back on Lifetime with a brand new season. The show documents individuals and families who are leaving cults that force multiple wives and other activities that are often deemed ...

A new A&E documentary series is exposing the reality of life within several Mormon sects that still embrace polygamy – including one associated with the stars of TLC’s hit series Sister Wives. Through ...

Unlike Sister Wives, Escaping Polygamy gives fans an honest look at what it’s like to leave polygamy and their families behind without any support from the outside world. This gritty Lifetime series ...

(RNS) — Polygamous Mormons didn't go to Mexico in the late 19th century in defiance of the church; the church sent them there with its blessing. (RNS) — The horrific killing of three women and six ...

The arrest of polygamist leader Lyle Jeffs, evictions of polygamist families and new studies on crippling genetic disorders among small ultra-orthodox or “fundamentalist” Mormon communities in rural ...

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. “Polyamory is the state, practice, or orientation of having multiple sexual and/or romantic ...

The Democratic Party is so freaked out over the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade that it accidentally voted to legalize polygamy. To review, the Dobbs ...

(RNS) — Carol Lynn Pearson writes, ‘Children will be indoctrinated with the understanding that if a ‘man of authority’ tells us God wants us to do something we believe is wrong, we are to do it anyway ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First, Mykelti said that before meeting Padron, she had her eye on a family she wanted to join as a plural wife. “I had my ...