One Man, Six Wives And 29 Children: A Polygamous Family | Real Stories Full-Length Documentary

that photo? His. She gave it to me. Interviewer: Do you like you? She also has a photo of me next to her bed. Well, I think he likes me. She

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ly expresses it. Interviewer: Are you worried about getting her heart broken? Yes, she worries me that she might be. But, uh, but I think if he loved her enough he would want her to do whatever he wanted and be happy. Did you have a wild card? Interviewer: Is it sometimes confusing knowing how to be with a girl? MMM. I think you should let her make her own decisions and be friendly with her, and I feel like you should make them feel loved and needed.

This is how my father acts with my mothers and they love it. If I remarried a young wife, I would restrict her authority over her older

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until such time as he feels she has the experience and maturity to supervise them effectively. And obviously there will come a time when there may come a time when I have a wife who is younger than the

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we have here. Interviewer: And how do you expect children to understand that their father could have sexual relations with someone younger than them? How are you going to deal with that in the future?

The children I have have been raised in a plural

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where their father has many

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and uh. I want to say that my children understand about sex, how it works and what it is for. And that is limited to the bonds of marriage. And they understand that the way we have more babies in this

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is for the mothers and I to have sex. They don't think anything about it. And if he had another wife, regardless of her age, they would understand that he would have children with her and that sex is the way to have babies.

I seriously doubt they think about it. I

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ly do. Interviewer: How do you handle the type of charges that could be brought against you, perhaps through petitions? In Britain you would be prosecuted for child abuse for marrying fourteen-year-old girls. Hmm And how would you respond to that? For about ninety-five percent of recorded male history, girls married when they were physically ready to have babies. I believe God had a design there. And I believe that if it is a mistake for a girl to marry when she can conceive children, then the mistake is God's in making them capable of being mothers long before they were ready.

It's not God who made them physically capable of having children before they were mentally capable of handling it that is to blame. It is from our society. Our Western society stopped preparing young men and women for the responsibilities of a family and began to change that to prepare them to go to work in the workplace. Interviewer: In Utah, it is still illegal for a man to have sexual relations with a woman who is not recognized as his wife. The authorities do not recognize plural religious marriages as legal. Interviewer: Are you likely to be arrested? Right now there is a big effort by an anti-polygamist group to have me arrested.

Because they keep telling people that polygamy didn't work for them and it can't work for anyone. And then my

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tell people that it works for us. And that is why they would very much like to discredit me by arresting and imprisoning me. They have been pressuring the county prosecutors to go after me and I don't know what they will decide. There's a chance that any day the sheriff's cars will pull into the driveway, handcuff me, and take me to jail. We live with that fear floating over our heads, but if I go to jail for my religious beliefs I am not ashamed.

Interviewer: On July 9, 1999, Tom Green and his wives were ordered to appear before the county attorney. And there will be no disputes between you. Interviewer: Tom is still waiting to find out if he will face trial. What are disputes? Someone knows? Interviewer: If he is convicted of all charges of bigamy, Tom could spend up to twenty years in prison. Consequently, Tom has delayed any plans to marry Candace.