Nevo wrote:Actually it's not that simple, as the following from Kathryn Daynes shows:
In 1850 the sex ratio for those fifteen to twenty-nine [the prime marrying age range] was quite high. There were 124 males for every 100 females, not an unusual ratio for a frontier area in its earliest stages of settlement. Rapid immigration into Utah during the 1850s both greatly expanded and changed the population. By 1860 the sex ratio for those in the prime marrying ages dropped to 93 [males for every 100 females]; within a decade the shortage of women had turned into a surplus. By 1870 the numbers of men and women of prime marrying age were almost equal, by 1880 men again outnumbered women slightly (sex ratio of 105), and by 1890 the sex ratio had climbed to 116 for those fifteen to twenty-nine.
These sex ratios indicate that men of this age group significantly outnumbered women of similar age only in 1850 and 1890; in the intervening decades there was a shortage of young men or they were only slightly more numerous than young women. Thus the marriage market was not as disadvantageous for young men as the sex ratio for the entire Utah population would suggest.
It is unclear, though, how many non-Mormon men, such as soldiers, merchants, and miners, were included in each census. Dean May has calculated that non-Mormons accounted for 12 percent of Utah's population in 1860 and 21 percent in 1880. Because non-Mormon men undoubtedly outnumbered non-Mormon women in nineteenth-century Utah, the preponderance of men, as shown in the census, is unlikely to reflect the sex ratio within the Mormon population.
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From the 1850s to the 1880s, then, the number of women receiving their temple blessings exceeded the number of men who did. Thus, in the marriage market containing only those desiring temple ordinances, men were at a decided advantage--or they would have been so in a monogamous system. Under such a system, women who wished to be sealed to a mate would have experienced a marriage squeeze; that is, they would have encountered a scarcity of endowed males.
In short, a Mormon woman who wished to be married in the temple would have had reduced chances of such a marriage under a monogamous system. The marriage squeeze against endowed women eased slightly in the 1870s, but there still would have been a conspicuous shortage of men.
— Kathryn M. Daynes, "Single Men in a Polygamous Society: Male Marriage Patterns in Manti, Utah," Journal of Mormon History 24, no. 1 (1998): 91-92.
Hello Nevo,
Thanks Nevo, For giving me a descent Response, instead of Personally insulted me like the LDS Apologist William Schryver did. There are almost usually more Males that die before they reach adulthood, than there are Females who die before they reach adulthood. There were likely more adult Mormon Females within the Utah Territory, then there were adult Mormon Males within the Utah Territory, during most of the time, between the Years of 1850 and 1885.
However, The Fact remains that there are about 105 Males born for every 100 Females.
Now, Here is again The Following important information, From About.com:
How many boys are born for every 100 girls?
There are 105 boy babies born for ever[y] 100 girl babies worldwide but scientists haven't determined why this sex ratio is so.
( Link: http://geography.about.com/library/faq/ ... eratio.htm ) And, Here is The Following important information, From Wikipedia:
Sex ratioFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sex ratio is the
ratio of males to females in a population. The primary sex ratio is the ratio at the time of conception, secondary sex ratio is the ratio at time of birth, and tertiary sex ratio is the ratio of mature organisms.[1]
The human sex ratio is of particular interest to anthropologists and demographers. In humans the secondary sex ratio is commonly assumed to be 105 boys to 100 girls (which sometimes is shortened to "a ratio of 105"). In human societies, however, sex ratios at birth or among infants may be considerably skewed by sex-selective abortion and infanticide. The CIA estimates that the current world wide sex ratio at birth is 107 boys to 100 girls.[2]
In biology, sex ratio is defined as the proportion of males in the population.
( Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_ratio )It sure looks like that the LDS Apologist of Polygyny, William Schryver is Not going to get his wish of having several wives within the Celestial Kingdom.
"And I've said it before, you want to know what Joseph Smith looked like in Nauvoo, just look at Trump." - Fence Sitter
