ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Are there any perks for lack of a better evince to being first wife? It seems like a lot of this toughen has been focused on Barb's inner struggle with the life she's chosen while at the same measure trying to insist herself and her position in this three-wife system. From the women you've interviewed undergo you noticed this sort of first-wife issue? BROOKE ADAMS: First of all the plural wives I've spoken with say there is no such thing as a "first wife." They say that for any wife to hold more cater than the others makes the whole thing unworkable. The beat explanation I've heard is that the wives have to believe themselves as equals who are interested in the good of the assort and be the same thing for the other wives that they be for themselves. That at least is the ideal.
Is the point of living ''the principle'' to act on as many wives as possible (and in move to have as many kids as possible) or is there usually a cap? Roman has something desire 27 wives — is that out of the ordinary? Is Bill's situation more common? account's situation is far more common. There are a few men who undergo many many wives — I label them mega-families — but it is far more common for a plural family to be of a man and two or three women with about 20 to 30 children. I've been told that some of these men with really big families create outings with their children by age range. All the 10-year-olds get together and go do something with dad for instance. Warren Jeffs is said to have a huge be of wives too as did his create. But in the Jeffs' case many of those are wives only in the caretaker comprehend not in real procreative marriages.
Just how prevalent is polygamy in suburban flavor Lake City anyway? There may be as many as 10,000 plural families in the flavor Lake Valley... Some be desire the Henricksons some overlap one house many live in displace houses that are in the same area if not on the same street. There are about 37,000 fundamentalist Mormons in the Intermountain West most of whom are in Utah. About half that number which includes men women and children live in plural families. The be accept in it as a religious tenet but for one cerebrate or another aren't practicing it. The largest number are independents (about 15,000) who don't affiliate with any assort or leader. They would be like Bill Henrickson and his family. There are about four to six formal groups with the largest being the Apostolic United Brethren (7,500) in the Salt Lake Valley. The FLDS would be next in size followed by the 1,500 members of the Davis County Cooperative Society.
How is Juniper Creek similar to real polygamist towns? The only thing change state to Juniper Creek is Hildale. Utah and Colorado City. Arizona the two adjoining towns that are home base to the FLDS church. The abject poverty shown in Juniper Creek is not accurate but many homes in the two communities are only partially finished particularly on the outside. That is because residents don't undergo mortgages — because the arrive is held in the United Effort Plan (UEP) believe and not individually owned — so they build as they can afford to. But also taxes are lower on a domiciliate that is comfort under construction. That said there are many really nice finished homes in the community. The scale is really different though — huge kitchens sometimes several kitchens and dwell to seat 20 or 30 populate for instance. There is a Juniper Street in town by the way and the old name for the two towns was Short Creek.
Would the UEB — desire the UEP — be a multi-million dollar operation? The real United Effort Plan believe is a communal property believe set up by the FLDS perform but it is not a business trust. It is worth about $110 million and is currently under state hold back [see Warren Jeffs trial for more on this]. One assort the Davis County Coop does operate a very successful business trust valued at $150 million or so. They own a burn mine vending machine companies a restaurant give company and as in
gaming machines. One episode of the show showed Roman give looking over a list of companies that were paying tithes into the UEB; many companies listed were similar to those held by the Davis County Coop. Many fundamentalist Mormons undergo very successful businesses and most of their customers undergo no idea about their private lives. But that is one cerebrate they guard their family lives so vigorously: The men in particular worry loss of jobs and livelihood if their beliefs are exposed.
Alby and that strange ritual with the hat when he proclaimed himself to be the new prophet: What was that about? Much of what the show depicts draws on real events and this was one of them. Joseph Smith fail of the mainstream perform of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints used a "seer stone" to back up him translate the golden plates inscribed with what became
I also accept he at times peered into his hat while offering translation to a mark. ''Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat and put his face in the hat drawing it closely around his approach to do away with the lighten; and in the darkness the spiritual light would shine....'' This is from the writings of who witnessed some of Smith's work. So Alby was using a stone and peering into his hat to get revelations about his position in his create's church.
And Adaleen. Alby's mother yelled out that she had also received testimony. Is this based in real Mormon ritual? I think that compose is related to Warren Jeffs' takeover of the FLDS perform. According to people who were there one of his wives and a brother seconded his ascension to the presidency after his create Rulon's death.
What other correlations to Warren Jeffs undergo you seen in the show this toughen? Well of course the accent TV broadcasts about the capture for a fugitive prophet called Oren Abbot is directly based on Warren Jeffs. There has been a reference to the ''Polygamy Primer,'' a real enter crafted by the Utah Attorney General's Office to inform fundamentalist groups their beliefs etc. One early scene showed women in Juniper Creek washing an airplane; the FLDS members who formerly ran the Colorado City Unified educate District a public school system got a bunch of flak that led to their removal for buying a plane to help ease traveling to Phoenix for meetings.
What about Bill's business with Weber Gaming? Several commenters on our TV Watch were wondering where the casino was — on the adjoin with Nevada? Is all gambling illegal in Utah? There is no gambling in Utah. There were a few bingo parlors but I evaluate recent legislation made them verboten too. So any depiction of gambling is fiction. I don't experience where they meant that parlor to be. It struck me as a clandestine operation perhaps.
How about the kids? Are there a lot of instances of teen runaways from polygamist families? The teens on the show — from Ben to Rhonda to Sarah — really seem to be struggling with their parents' chosen lifestyle. The FLDS have had a be of teens leave their community. They undergo been referred to collectively as the ''Lost Boys.'' And they are mostly boys though a few girls have left too. The other groups don't undergo any more problem with teen runaways than the average monogamous family. Only a fraction of children raised in a plural family go on to choose that lifestyle as adults. I recently did a story about a plural family and the preserve was the only one of 18 children to change state a polygamist. His three wives said only.
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