So I was at work today and I had some down time to read my book, Escape. I had gotten to the part where she was being forced to marry her first cousin, after the prophet told her to follow her heart and Warren informed her that if she didn't go through with her marriage she would be going against the will of God. What a crock. It's hard to believe polygamy still exist today, plural marriage. The book I am reading is dated in the year 2000. WOW I know right. But what baffles me the most is that women have absolutely no say in their lives what so ever, in some cases even having children. If the man wants to have marital relations then it's his right as the husband to have it. How wrong is that. So lets skip ahead to the movie I was watching, " The Duchess " with Keira Knightly. She was having a hard time conceiving a boy for her husband, the Duke, so what does he do, goes and finds his fulfillment else where. And in the heat of an argument he takes advantage of his own wife, taking what he thinks is right fully his, and before you know it she is pregnant and bares him a son, era to the throne. Oh did I mention that his mistress lived with them in the palace as well.



I guess where I am going with this is, even back in the 1800s if you really take a look at it they might as well have been practicing polygamy. The King would grow tired of his wife and move his mistress in, to get her bare babies that his wife may not have been able to. The Queen or Dutches never had a say in her own life, but she was obligated to fulfill her wifely duties, which was to bare kids and be a silent garment on her husbands arm, much like a polygamist wife. All or most marriages were arranged back in the 1800s, where as all marriages are arranged, or better yet one man who claims to be in direct contact with god determines you future. How awful is that. I at this point feel very blessed to not have lived back in the 1800s or have been born into a polygamist life. To be able to get an education, make my own decisions, to decide who I want to marry and when I am ready to marry, not at the age of fourteen like alot of young girls trapped in a polygamist life style, or back in the 1800s when families married off their kids young for the sake of the family's name. I probably would not have made in back in those days LOL.