I often wondered what's supposed to happen in a polygamist community when an equal number of males and females are born. As this article points out, boys in polygamist communities face a difficult life. For polygamy like this to work, the community needs to have fewer men. How many fewer men? Well, they claim every man needs 3 wives to make it to heaven. That means 3 times more women then men in their communities. Apparently this ratio is kept high by holding boys to impossible standards and expelling them from their families and community when those standards are not met. Where as most women we hear about leaving polygamous communities have in essence ran away from their homes, most men have been expelled.
Ignoring the fact that leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have many more then the 3 "required" wives, we assume 3 women to every man.
If there are 99 women and 99 men in a generation, only 33 men in that generation will be able to achieve the "required" 3 wives. I think theses statistics point both to the problem of boys being sent away from home and men "marrying" outside their generation.
