Changes in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I said that poorly. Sorry to mislead.

I did not mean to imply that any, much less most, women wouldn’t care which man provided the sperm for their pregnancy.

But rather that whether that individual male was a spouse, a shared spouse, a BF, a FWB, or somebody chosen for studliness with little social connection wouldn’t matter across the context of the group of women. Some members of the group have children, and the group is kid-friendly. How exactly any particular child came to be wouldn’t be a taboo subject, but it also wouldn’t be very important to the group. Most significantly, it wouldn’t be normative within the group.

And yes, I almost made my reply into a fresh thread as you’ve magicked into existence. I should not have hijacked quite that much. Given how much of my posts get written in the edit window, it’s a shame that once a post is first saved it can’t be rehomed into a new thread except by “never minding” your first attempt and creating a fresh post that’s a related OP.

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Never mind; inadvertent double-post

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Do wives in multiple marriages in Mormon groups get to choose their husband? Or do they get “sold off” when they are too young to understand they can say “no” (assuming they can say “no”.)

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And, i guess, to keep it on-topic, is that something that has changed over time?

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Depends on the Mormon groups, to be honest.

In the FLDS (Warren Jeffs group) girls were married off so young that consent didn’t exist. Even fully grown women could be “reassigned” and shuffled among men other than their original husband without their say so.

Other Mormon groups it’s much more autonomous adults forming these relationships, not uncommonly with the women capable of being financially independent but choosing these arrangements for whatever reason(s).

Everything in between those two extremes also exist.

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He is dead now: