Comments on: I Have Even More Questions, 1930

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:17:06 +0000

Kathy Daynes’ study of plural marriage in Manti for a specified period is a model for those studies, David. She didn’t just count heads but made an effort to look at each marriage and extended family to be sure she understood the dynamics.

By: David B

David B — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:51:18 +0000

It totally blows my mind that nobody knows the percentage of members who participated in plural marriage beyond some hazy “between 2 and 35 percent” (the upper and lower bounds i’ve ever seen), given the records that exist. Yeah, they’re scattered all over the place, but nobody’s put them together? There’s a really important doctoral dissertation just waiting to be written by a demography student, i’m thinking.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:34:11 +0000

Yeah, when they try to hit the lowest possible percentage like this, they count only percent of adult men as a fraction of all members, deliberately overlooking the obvious fact that for each man involved in polygamy there were, by definition, at least two women involved — among other problematic accounting tricks.

By: Maurine Ward

Maurine Ward — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:46:50 +0000

Studies today point to the percentage of people in polygamy more like 25 to 30 percent.