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English
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Mormonism : Harm, Human Rights, and the Criminalization of Fundamentalist Mormon Polygamy
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Fundamentalism, Politics, and the Law
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Basingstoke
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Palgrave Macmillan
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161-192
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"I discuss the potential of harm to the health and welfare of girls and young women; the high occurence of incest; the issue of infant deaths and genetic deformities; and the huma rights issues related to the frequent fundamentalist Mormon practice of arranged marriages. In addition, polygamy typically displaces young men in poygamous communities, and often these communities rely upon welfare fraud and state support in order to operate. The state, in turn, has vested legal interest in maintianng monogamous marrriages as legal entities, and the authoritarian, theocratic operation of polygamous communities threatens the rights of citizens within pluralistic, democratic states like the Unitd States and Canada." [From the author's introduction]