To be a polygamist is to be a probable cause?

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Being married to more than one person at a time usually makes people turn their heads in disgust. A 2009 poll on USNEWS. Com revealed that 91% Americans think that polygamy is wrong. There are two types of titles for multiple marriages, polygamy and bigamy. Specifics even go further with a male polygamist being a polygyny, a woman polygamist is polyandry, and when both the man and woman in the marriage are polygamists, they are group marriages. Polygamy is illegal in all states of the U.S., but, as with any law, it is often broken. The hotspot for polygamy conduct is in the state of Utah. Utah had to give up the practice of polygamy over a century ago. It might make a person feel better to be told that there are investigations to pinpoint down polygamists. The down side of this statement is that that is not always true because it would cost too much money and be putting officers out of the job of fighting serious crimes.

The Brown family was being scrutinized for possibly breaking the law. It seems that they doomed themselves when publically coming out to talk about their lives on TLC’s “Sister Wives”. Brown and his family said that the reason to do the show was to make their definition of family known to people; they want people to see how normal their abnormal family is.

Utah says on The News Tribune that bigamy/polygamy is rarely investigated and in circumstances where it is, it is because of, “cases involving allegations of abuse, sexual assault and fraud, not bigamy”. Since bigamy is a crime just like the others in that list, then why is it overlooked? Tom Green was the last person Utah did arrest for a polygamy charge, which was in 2001. Just like Mr. Brown, Mr. Green talked about his lifestyle to national media. This does not seem fair, since other polygamists who live in silence are not even examined. Instead of this crime being investigated in Utah for the fraud or abuse icing on top, bigamy/polygamy, investigations need to be more abundant and for the sole purpose cracking down on polygamy felonies.