Tag: polygamy

Children can thrive in polygamous families and are often better off than those from monogamous households in poor communities, researchers said on Monday

As the New York Times reported Monday, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been quietly publishing essays on its official website for the past year or so that grapple with some of the “dark corners” of our past, most recently, several essaysregarding polygamy.

(RNS) A federal judge has ruled that Utah's laws on polygamy are unconstitutional, in a case involving the Brown family featured on TLC’s reality series "Sister Wives."

Every religion has its dark corners, its shameful episodes in the past — or present  — that its members find embarrassing at best, faith-shattering at worst. Mormonism is no different.

A recent New York Times article featured Hans Mattsson, a high-ranking leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sweden, whose faith was shaken when he learned about some aspects of our history that troubled him...