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Polygamy, also called plural marriage, is the practice of having more than one spouse at one time. Mormon Fundamentalist believe and practice polygamy. In FLDS communities it is the male that has many wives and from these wives comes many children. Most people look down upon Polygamy, because they believe it to be degrading of the women. However, within Mormon Fundamentalism, polygamy serves a great part of their religion and helps with family dynamics.
Mormon Fundamentalist believe and practice polygamy because it is a large component of their religious beliefs. Mormons believe that there are trapped souls in heaven and every time a child is born one of the souls gets to come down to earth. After all the souls are free God will come back to the earth. Because of this philosophy Mormons try to have as many children as posible to free the "lost souls." If a women and her husband were trying to have, for example, nine children it would be a lot of pressure and work for her.......

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