Reply #29: Maybe. Maybe not. These communities seem to have certain common characteristics.

[No Elephants]

It is not about freely consenting adults. It's always about men controlling the women and often about very young "brides," some of them fairly close relatives of the groom.

They are home schooled, but the home schooling of both genders tends to be lousy, leaving both boys and girls ill equipped for life outside the community or even a full life within the community. And, the more generations tha are brought up this way, the worse the home schooling is going to be.

Many boys, not quipped for life outside the community, will get thrown out before they become competition for the codgers. And young women do not seem truly free to leave, even to go to college. And then there is that welfare thing.

Besides, all Mormons, polygamous or not, tend to vote Republican and are anti-choice and anti-GLBT, if not also anti-African American. I'm guessing they're not much for inter-mingling with other minorities, either.

Bleeeccccchhhhh.