The Mormon population has shrunk significantly in recent decades.
 Mormons self-identify as being Christian, while many Christians, particularly evangelical Protestants, disagree with this view
 Over the next 50 years, many Mormons (between 20 and 30 percent of Mormon families) entered into plural marriages as a religious duty, with the number of plural marriages reaching a peak around 1860 and then declining through the rest of the century

