09-28-2010, 11:08 PM
I watched the opening episode of "Sister Wives", just because I was curious. Egad. What I did find interesting was how relatively normal this particular group is in relation to other polygamist groups I've read about or seen on TV. Of course just a week or two earlier I watched a movie called "The 19th Wife", and that was also about a polygamist group in Utah. They were very different from this family, including the way the women and children dressed and the attitude of the men about just how much freedom their wives were allowed to have. In this reality series, everybody wears traditional street clothes and at least two of the wives work fulltime outside the home. Dad drives a Lexus, and I saw a small fleet of Suburbans in the parking area, and I assumed that was one for each wife.