Divorce is the only other available solution of providing husbands and fathers for the larger number of women and their children. The newly divorced woman is susceptible to the predatory single man. Polygamy offers a marriage alternative. Enlightened polygamy offers a reasonable alternative to single loneliness, fatherless children, and increasing violence and juvenile crime. As a society, we reap the results of fatherlessness, as is evident in the social problems rampant today.
Some single women find polygamy provides new choices and a solution to the single life.
Plural marriage means a woman does not have to settle for any man rather than none at all. The man who is kind, considerate and caring, gentle and loving is the man who attracts women to his household. This is good for women and children, and society as a whole. Rotten men won't get the wives because women don't have to settle for what is available. This is an incentive for men to improve themselves.