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Adams received a major break in 2006 while in British Columbia to report on an effort by Canadian officials to deport several wives of polygynist Winston Blackmore -- who has an estimated 15 wives and at least 100 children.

Walking in Ervil's shoes is a recent polygynist of LeBaron, Orson W.

While abuses do occur, research among 11 individual Muslim communities during the summer and fall of 2003 suggests that the mistreatment of women and children in Mormon polygynist communities is far removed from the family life experienced by their Muslim counterparts.

An additional complication was that her husband was not a traditional polygynist. His wives had no space to themselves and no proper gardens or houses of their own.

Unlike the old polygynists, however, the new polygynists do not act like Big Men of old.

Thus, women in monogamous marriages tend to have many children intended to stop their husbands from being polygynists. The women prefer girls because more girls mean more labour for agricultural production hence more income.

Usually associated with the Mormon fundamentalist movement--a bona fide and separate subculture that comes complete with its own peculiar twist on LDS religious mythology and social agenda--modern polygynists number, depending on the researcher, anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 strong within the intermountain West.

Women themselves were widely in favour of polygyny, and they first reacted strongly against the missionaries' criticism of this institution: a women would have too much work, they protested, if she were man's only wife.(17) Even though the church always argued in favour of monogamy, it has up to now maintained a certain flexibility: polygynists are not banned from the church, even more so because it is often the wives, converted first, who bring their husbands into the Christian faith.

Seals may not deserve their reputation as purely polygynists, a new study suggests.

Lineages of the grand polygynists had deep genealogies because a first wife would be decades older than her husband's youngest bride.

Unlike other missions, the UFM also received much criticism for baptising polygynists, men with more than one wife.