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Old 07-26-2012, 03:41 PM   #1
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Default Mormon polygamous divorce

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Polygamous divorce was a somewhat simpler affair among 19th-century Mormons. Church leaders released women from their marriages regularly, and sometimes even granted them the family cow or a sum of money to help them in their new lives. Divorce wasn’t strongly stigmatized in the culture. Ex-wives remarried, often into other polygamous families. In fact, Utah divorce laws were so lax in the early 1870s that people traveled from faraway states just to dissolve their marriages.
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Explainer thanks Adrienne Davis of Washington University in St. Louis, Kathryn Daynes of Brigham Young University, author of More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910, and Rodney R. Parker of Snow, Christensen, and Martineau.
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Stuff I never knew. Actually quite fascinating.
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