2. Bigamy

3. My Thesis  People should be allowed to follow their hearts and their religion. It says so in the 1 st amendment of the Bill of Rights.  If someone decides to have more than one wife or husband then that is their decision.

4. Information  Bigamy is when you are legally married to more than one person at the same time.  The root word “bi” means two but it does not only mean two mates.

5.  There are two types of bigamist, the dishonest bigamist and the honest bigamist.  The dishonest bigamist’s wives to not know about each other.  Honest bigamist’s wives know about each other and accept it.

6. Laws  A single count of Bigamy is charged against an accused bigamist for each of his secondary wives.  For example, if a man has 3 wives, he would be charged with two counts of bigamy.

7.  In the commonwealth of Virginia bigamy is a felony and is not terribly common throughout the state.

8. Locally Charged Man  A Fairfax man named Charles Edward Hicks, 61, was charged about 5 years ago with bigamy and had to go in front of the grand jury.  Mr. Hicks will be charged on 2 accounts of bigamy.

9.  Mr. has two wives, but has been married 7 times.  Three of his marriages took place while he was legally married to someone else.

10. Sister Wives  Sister wives is a hit show on TLC.

11.  Kody Brown is 41 years old and is the husband to the 4 sister wives.  He has a total of 13 kids that are his, plus 3 step children that his wife Robyn brought into the marriage.

12.  The little town that they were from was a pretty common place for bigamy.  Then they moved to Las Vegas and it was looked down upon.  Bigamy in Utah is fairly common through most parts of the state.

13.  Meri is the only one legally married to Kody Brown.  They have been married 20 years.  Meri and Kody have one kid together.  She was his first wife but she knew that he would add more into the mix at some point.  Meri was fired from her job after the show started airing and her boss seen her lifestyle.

14.  Kody and his 2 nd wife Janelle have 6 children together.  Janelle was best friends with meri that’s how she got to know Kody.  She works full time and supports the family with her large paycheck.

15.  Christine is the 3 rd wife to Kody.  Christine just gave birth to the youngest of all the children, and her name is truely.  Her and Kody have 6 children together.  She is the stay at home mom who does most of the cooking and taking care of the kids

16.  Robyn is the 4 th wife to Kody.  Robyn came into the marriage with 3 of her own kids, this upset Kody and the other 3 wives.

17. Sister Wives Coummunity  People in their new neighborhood don’t particularly care for the marriage.  Many of the neighbors are speaking out that they do not like having to explain this lifestyle to their children

18. Utah Bigamy Compound Busted  Tom Green is 52 years old and has 5 wives and 29 children.  He lives with his family in a remote compound in the Utah Desert.

19.  Tom Green faces up to 25 years in prison, and 25,000 $ in fines.  He was charged with 4 counts of bigamy and one on failing to pay child support.

20.  Green married all 5 of his wives, some were young as 14.  3 of his wives are pregnant right now.  His 5 wives includes 2 sets of sisters.  All his wives eventually divorced him for wellfare but they all still lived with him.

21. Religion  Mr. Green is a fundamentalist Mormon. And he said that having several wives was a god given choice.  He argued that it was his constitutional right to follow the religion he wanted.  After being prosecuted, Green vowed to continue his lifestyle.  He didn’t serve any time he just paid a fine and had to divorce all his wives.

22. Bigamy  By Dillon Trent