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VISUAL ACTIVITY Mormon Family The rest of America found the Mormon practice of polygamy deeply offensive. In 1890, the Mormons officially abandoned plural marriages, but in this photograph from Salt Lake City in the 1850s, a husband, his three wives, and their five children sit for a family portrait. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. READING THE IMAGE: How would you describe the family’s attitude about their unusual family constellation—at ease and proud or uneasy and embarrassed? CONNECTIONS: Why would most Americans find the Mormon practice of plural marriages so disturbing?