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Which wife is in change in Polygamist Marriages?

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Traditionally it is the first wife however most families who practice plural marriage tend to be more democratic then that. There are some fundamentalist groups that have a strict order of authority often with the "legal" wife being in charge and that isn't necessarily the first wife.

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