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''Escaping Polygamy'' is an American documentary television series that premiered on December 30, 2014, on LMN. The show now airs on
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, and follows the work of three sisters who left the
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polygamous Crimes Polygamy (from Late Greek (') "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marriage, marrying multiple spouses. When a man is married to more than one wife at the same time, sociologists call this polygyny. When a woman is ...
group based in
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, Utah known as The Order, as they help family and/or friends break free of polygamy. They have also helped people escape from the
FLDS Church The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church) is a religious sect of the Mormon fundamentalism, fundamentalist Mormon denominations whose members practice polygamy. The fundamentalist Mormon movement emerged in t ...
and the AUB Church. The show was originally on A&E, but later moved to Lifetime. The series was renewed for a fourth season on March 4, 2019, and premiered on Lifetime on April 1, 2019. Since the fourth season aired, Jessica Christensen, one of the three women on the show, said on Instagram that she would not be filming a fifth season of the show and that if the show were to be renewed it would have to feature different people. However, there has since been no official announcement from Lifetime regarding the future of the show.


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