Most of us think that a family is made up of the mother, the father and the siblings and in some cases the grandparents as well. And we live in a society that is commonly practiced. Most of us live in a society where monogamy is practiced, were “one person is married to only one person at a time” page 90. That is how we are raised to believe that it should be and that is how we see it as being normal and accepted in our society. But there is another type of marriage that is completely opposite to monogamy which is practiced in many countries including the United States. It is called polygamy, where “one individual is married to several husbands or wives at the same time” page 90. Families are made up of one father and many mothers or the other way around and the families are very big. Polygamy in the United States is illegal if they announce it publically, for example on national TV or radio and they can be imprisoned.
To me polygamy is unacceptable. Even thought I watched the whole episode on TV explaining the practices of polygamy and how people should accept it as being normal, and I did learn a lot, to me it is still unacceptable. On the other hand, I don’t believe that people should be imprisoned for practicing polygamy because people can make their own decisions on how to live their life. As you can see on the video, If the father gets imprisoned the little children are going be affected in two ways, economically and psychologically. Imagine growing up without your father, it would be very hard. The mothers would have a tough time raising the children as well. The little children shouldn’t be punished because of what their father has done or what the state thinks is wrong to do. The thing that bothered me is when one of the wives said that she is doing this, practicing polygamy because it brings her closer to God. They are not doing it because that is what that makes them happy but to please someone else. And I think they should change their point of view.
