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Joseph Smith and children through plural marriage


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  1. Question: Can you summarize what we know about whether or not Joseph Smith fathered any children by his plural wives?
  2. Question: Did Joseph Smith father any children through polygamous marriages?
  3. Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case for children
  4. Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case against children
  5. Question: What did the husband of Sylvia Sessions know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
  6. Question: Did Prescindia Buell (or Sarah Pratt, or Mrs. Hyde) not know who was the father of her son?
  7. Question: Did Joseph Smith father children by polyandrous plural wife Prescindia Buell?
  8. Question: What is the current state of the evidence for proving or disproving that Joseph Smith had children by his plural wives?
  9. Question: Was the only purpose of polygamy to "multiply and replenish the earth" and "bear the souls of men"?
  10. Question: If the only purpose of polygamy was to "raise up seed," then why did Joseph not have children by his plural wives?

Why would Joseph Smith be sealed to other men's wives?

Summary: Why would Joseph Smith be sealed to other men's wives? Some of these men were even active members of the Church. Were these marriages for time or only for eternity? Were these marriages consumated? Why did these women continue to live with the husbands after being sealed to Joseph Smith?

Question: Were there sexual relations in Joseph's marriages to women with living husbands?

Summary: There is no good evidence for sexual relations in polyandrous sealings.


See also Brian Hales' discussion
Some wonder if sexual relations were included in Joseph Smith’s plural marriages. The answer is yes or no, depending upon the type of plural marriage. Those marriages, often called “sealings,” were of two types. Some were for this life and the next (called “time-and-eternity”) and could include sexuality on earth. Others were limited to the next life (called “eternity-only”) and did not allow intimacy in mortality. Overall, evidence indicates that less than half of Joseph Smith’s polygamous unions were consummated and sexual relations in the others occurred infrequently.
It appears the Prophet experienced sexual relations with less than half of the women sealed to him. There is no credible evidence that Joseph had sex with three subgroups of his plural wives: (1) fourteen-year-old wives, (2) non-wives (or women to whom he was not married), and (3) legally married women who were experiencing conjugal relations with their civil husbands.
No children are known to have been born to Joseph and his plural wives.


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