Polygamy when practiced long enough in any imperfect society will devolve into consistently breaking the hearts of wives and losing the confidence of children. There have been times and places where the Lord has commanded it and I think it has consistently been practiced and accepted after it was commanded in those societies but it is inherently unstable. I would be less surprised if it were never allowed again in mortality than I would to see it b brought back openly in the church (openly meaning that a man could have two wives at the same time, as opposed to allowing a man to be sealed to a second wife after his mortal marriage to another wife was ended).
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