A while back, I wrote a blog post about polygamy and I had some pretty strong feelings about the whole phenomenon. My biggest issue with it was the fact that, in the documentary that I watched, very young women seemed to be forced into situations that they had no control over. Additionally, I was very upset by the subservient role that the wives seemed to play within the confines of the polygamist family. This past week, I happened upon a show called Sister Wives on Netflix and I was immediately drawn to watching it. The show revolves around a polygamist family with a husband that has four wives and sixteen children between the four women. I wanted to see how these people lived in real life and not through the perspective of a generic documentary like the one that I had seen years before. Now, before you start emailing all of your friends and telling them that Tough Cookie Mommy is converting and becoming a Sister Wife, I thought I should write a blog post outlining … [Read more...]