Editing Mormonism and polygamy (section)

==== Posterity ====
One reason given for the practice of polygamy is to increase the Mormon population by childbirth.<ref name=":8" />{{rp|44}} In the [[Millennial Star]], a church owned and operated newspaper, an article teaches that monogamous marriages result in offspring that are physically and mentally lesser than offspring of polygamous marriages.<ref name="Hardy 2007 117"/><ref name=":2" />{{rp|187}}