MULTIPLE MARRIAGE
“I watched an interview on the Regis & Kathy show today. I think I got the name right. They talked with the authors of a book: "Love Times Three: our True Story of a Polygamous Marriage" by Joe, Alima, Vickie & Valerie Darger.
Joe Darger is married to Alima, Vickie and Valerie. They live in Utah. Vickie and Alima have been married to Joe for 20 years, and in 2000 they asked their husband to consider marrying Vicki’s twin sister who had 5 children from a previous marriage. He did. This marriage added five children to the 7 that Joe and Alima had, and 8 to the union of Vicki and Joe, and dig this: Joe andValerie had 4 children together! That is 24 children!
I looked at their faces, and saw the deep satisfaction, the solidness of their lives together, and a host of questions rose to the surface. One of the obvious things I noticed struck me. Their unions developed a deeper sense of togetherness. The concept, and the action of these marriages under one roof developed a discipline unlikely to easily show up in too many mongamus marriages. This is a white family I might add, but their stories tied me into the marriages of the patriarchs of the Hebrew peoples, the Arabs I met, as a young man, in Morocco, and other countries, and the very few in the African spiritual community in Washington DC.
As Christians we aren’t allowed to publicly speak of the connections, but in societies outside of the Western tradition everything of life, including religion, spirituality, diet, sex, etc. are encircled within the family dynamics of plural marriages, and crucial to the state of those marriages, and the well-being of the children is the sanity of the adults….” - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
The book: http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Love-Times-Three/?isbn=9780062074041
Excerpts: http://www.harpercollins.com/browseinside/index.aspx?isbn13=9780062074041
“I watched an interview on the Regis & Kathy show today. I think I got the name right. They talked with the authors of a book: "Love Times Three: our True Story of a Polygamous Marriage" by Joe, Alima, Vickie & Valerie Darger.
Joe Darger is married to Alima, Vickie and Valerie. They live in Utah. Vickie and Alima have been married to Joe for 20 years, and in 2000 they asked their husband to consider marrying Vicki’s twin sister who had 5 children from a previous marriage. He did. This marriage added five children to the 7 that Joe and Alima had, and 8 to the union of Vicki and Joe, and dig this: Joe andValerie had 4 children together! That is 24 children!
I looked at their faces, and saw the deep satisfaction, the solidness of their lives together, and a host of questions rose to the surface. One of the obvious things I noticed struck me. Their unions developed a deeper sense of togetherness. The concept, and the action of these marriages under one roof developed a discipline unlikely to easily show up in too many mongamus marriages. This is a white family I might add, but their stories tied me into the marriages of the patriarchs of the Hebrew peoples, the Arabs I met, as a young man, in Morocco, and other countries, and the very few in the African spiritual community in Washington DC.
As Christians we aren’t allowed to publicly speak of the connections, but in societies outside of the Western tradition everything of life, including religion, spirituality, diet, sex, etc. are encircled within the family dynamics of plural marriages, and crucial to the state of those marriages, and the well-being of the children is the sanity of the adults….” - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
Excerpts: http://www.harpercollins.com/browseinside/index.aspx?isbn13=9780062074041
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