Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 4
Burden or Pleasure? A Profile of LDS Polygamous Husbands
1987: Jessie Embry, “Burden or Pleasure? A Profile of LDS Polygamous Husbands“ Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 20 No. 4 (1987): 158–166.
Despite what researchers have said over the years regarding for why men married plural wives, Embry argues that a significant portion of husbands married plural wives because of their religious beliefs.