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::I think the problem you will encounter, in looking for how people feel in these situations, is that people feel very differently in these situations. Some feel they are fulfilling a religious obligation, some feel betrayed, some feel relived, and some feel abused. It depends on the individuals involved. At best we can generalize, and say most feel X. But, because sociology is a relatively new discipline and since such arrangements are illegal most places today, there is little to no data from which to extrapolate. So I suspect that it will be hard if not impossible to find appropriately verifiable evidence to support general claims about the feelings of those involved. I certainly couldn’t find any—however, if you (or anyone else can) I’d be very interested to see it.--[[User:Reginod|Reginod]] 09:41, 20 March 2007 (EDT)
::I think the problem you will encounter, in looking for how people feel in these situations, is that people feel very differently in these situations. Some feel they are fulfilling a religious obligation, some feel betrayed, some feel relived, and some feel abused. It depends on the individuals involved. At best we can generalize, and say most feel X. But, because sociology is a relatively new discipline and since such arrangements are illegal most places today, there is little to no data from which to extrapolate. So I suspect that it will be hard if not impossible to find appropriately verifiable evidence to support general claims about the feelings of those involved. I certainly couldn’t find any—however, if you (or anyone else can) I’d be very interested to see it.--[[User:Reginod|Reginod]] 09:41, 20 March 2007 (EDT)
:::Perhaps I should have asked what the Church said they should feel. The demographic statistics and the official Mormon teaching might well survive, even if we can't quote newspaper interviews with any first wives. --[[User:Scott|Scott]] 10:14, 20 March 2007 (EDT)
:::Perhaps I should have asked what the Church said they should feel. The demographic statistics and the official Mormon teaching might well survive, even if we can't quote newspaper interviews with any first wives. --[[User:Scott|Scott]] 10:14, 20 March 2007 (EDT)
::::I don’t know about the early Mormon Church in particular—but that could probably be found. I do know that the modern Fundamentalist Church of Latter day Saints (Warren Jeffs’ group) teaches that all brides (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.) are entering a holy union ordained by God himself, through His Prophet, and that they should feel great joy. I suspect that in most cultures where polygamy is the rule rather than the exception the additional spouses don’t give it much thought—that’s just the way life is, and it is natural that they should wed as they do (most cultures see their way of doing things as the natural way to do things), but I’m not sure I could find any good data on that—so at the moment I’ll put this on the talk page as my own speculation. --[[User:Reginod|Reginod]] 09:26, 21 March 2007 (EDT)