[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Thanks - then the reason for marrying her is just to help with her support?

[reaganaut]

Thanks - then the reason for marrying her is just to help with her support?

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Not at all. The men never help with support, that is what ‘bleeding the beast’ is for (welfare, food stamps, etc). Also the men get the money from whatever enterprises the women run, because they own it, women cannot own property in most of these groups.

The marriages for ‘time’ are because the women are property and designed to keep them in line. The threat of reassigning wives is to keep the men in line. It is all about control.

The attitude is described perfectly in this quote by early Mormon apostle Heber C. Kimball (counselor to B. Young). “I think no more of taking [another] wife than I do of buying a cow.”