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NickCoons msg: 31	Tue, May 31, 2005, 9:39am
Yes, that is a problem, but having 50 kids is not the definition of polygamy; having multiple spouses is. If someone has 50 kids and doesn't pay any attention to them, it doesn't matter if they came from 5 wives or from 1 wife, they've still got screwed up kids. You could also screw up your kids if you only had 2 and never paid any attention to them. I have friends that have large families; one of them has 10 kids. I personally come from a large family of 7 kids. There is nothing wrong with having a lot of kids, as long as those kids are able to get everything they need from their parents to develop properly; it doesn't matter how many parents they have. The problem is when you have kids that are abused, or neglected. And from what I hear, that does happen in Colorado City quite often. That is what needs to be stopped. But polygamy, like a gun, is harmless on it's own.. it's how it's used that can cause problems.
zach77794 msg: 32	Tue, May 31, 2005, 6:24pm
theres a reason society has shifted towards hedrosexual marige between two people. In the countrys like afganistan and iraq women are treated poorly and men are treated supirior. the same is for polygamist towns and famillys. But put aside all of your opinons for a minute and think about this.....
zach77794 msg: 33	Tue, May 31, 2005, 6:27pm
why should a man get many wives but many women only get one man? Doesnt the scale seem un-balanced?
NickCoons msg: 34	Wed, Jun 1, 2005, 9:21am
<theres a reason society has shifted towards hedrosexual marige between two people.> I don't see that shift. If anything, the shift is moving the other way. In the past, most "unions" were between a man and a woman. It is now more common to skew away from that. <In the countrys like afganistan and iraq women are treated poorly and men are treated supirior.> I agree that the treatment of these individuals is wrong. <the same is for polygamist towns and famillys.> Colorado City is the only polygamist town that I know of (so I don't have a frame of reference), but I think their abuse comes from fear. They are afraid to be "found out", or even more so, they are afraid that the people living there will find a more preferrable way of life, so they keep them in the dark. If it was more open, and people there were free to leave, and outsiders that agreed with their way of life (minus the abuse) were free to enter, then I think it'd be a much more stable situation. What I'm saying is that I think it is possible for a polygamist family or even a town to exist without the abuse that takes place in Colorado City. <But put aside all of your opinons for a minute and think about this..... why should a man get many wives but many women only get one man? Doesnt the scale seem un-balanced?> Yes, of course women should have all of the same rights as men.
zach77794 msg: 35	Wed, Jun 1, 2005, 3:38pm
ok look at the past two hundred years and you will see the correct shift once you see that come back and talk to me
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