Background Information

Polygamy also known as a plural marriage is a practice that was brought over from the Muslim religion. Polygamy is known as any gender having more than one spouse of the opposite sex is illegal in the United States and can be fined. But like the Muslim religion exists here, the government can't intervine because of the first amendment. So then that becomes an issue. What has happened is that there now exists polygamous communities in Colorado and Utah. All of this started in the Middle East where the parents read the Koran and there it instructs that their chidrens marriages will be arranged. That's how one person (usually male) ends up with so many wives. But this also exists in Africa.