Sister Wives

**NicoleLJ** · 09-30-2010, 02:50 PM

Anyone Watch it last Sunday? What was your thoughts?

**NicoleLJ** · 09-30-2010, 03:03 PM

For those not familiar with the show here is a link to info about it:

http://www.people.com/people/article...420535,00.html

FOr those that are watching it here is info on a police Investigation now being done on them:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/394180...entertainment/

Thoughts?

**Taz_Zoee** · 09-30-2010, 03:18 PM

I refuse to watch this. I think it is totally wrong and will make people think it's okay to do this. Just like Nadia Suleman (or whatever her name is) having 8 babies just to get a show on TV.
We kept seeing the commercials for it this past weekend (because I watch TLC a lot) and I kept saying "isn't that illegal???".
I like my reality shows (Kate Plus 8 and 19 Kids and Counting) but this is just not okay IMO.

ETA: I just scanned through the investigation link you posted. So apparently it isn't legal in Utah, as I thought. And he is only legally married to one woman. I still don't get it. What's the point!?!? And the article says he has four wives. The previews I saw only showed three.

**Cataholic** · 09-30-2010, 05:23 PM

If it works for them....not my cup of tea (or teas, LOL), but if they are happy, self supporting and productive members of society, whatever.

**NicoleLJ** · 09-30-2010, 05:38 PM

the shows are about him courting and then marrying a 4th.

**Karen** · 09-30-2010, 06:55 PM

The show likely exists to try to capitalize on the popularity of the fictional show "Big Love" on HBO, which has been running for 4 seasons.

Polygamy is illegal, but still practiced by certain members of a branch of the Latter Day Saints, commonly called the Mormoms. The Mormom church outlawed polygamy many years ago, but the religious belief and practice obviously still carries on, but "in secret."

How they ever thought they could have a TV show about it and NOT get prosecuted is beyond me, it's not like they blur out anyone's faces or anything.