Sister Wives Season 14 Episode 1 | Review

The show follows the lives of advertising salesman Kody Brown, his wives Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn, and their 18 children.[4] In the first season the show televised Brown's courting of and marriage to his fourth wife, Robyn Sullivan, in 2010.[5][6][7] Sullivan was the first new wife to enter the family in 16 years.[8]

The only legal marriage was between Kody and his first wife Meri until their legal divorce in September 2014. (He legally married fourth wife Robyn in December 2014 in order to legally adopt her three children (Dayton, Aurora, and Breanna).) The other marriages are considered spiritual unions.[6][9] As of 2018, Kody has been married to Meri for 28 years, Janelle for 25 years, Christine for 24 years, and Robyn for 8 years.[10] Kody and Meri have a daughter named Mariah, their only child. Kody and Janelle have six children: daughters Madison and Savanah and sons Logan, Hunter, Garrison, and Gabriel. Kody and Christine have six children: daughters Aspyn, Mykelti, Gwendlyn, Ysabel, and Truely and son Paedon.[11][12] Robyn had three children from her first marriage, which was monogamous: Dayton, Aurora, and Breanna. Kody legally adopted them in June 2015. Kody and Robyn have two children: son Solomon and daughter Ariella. The family has two grandchildren, Axel and Evangalynn, both from Madison, one of Kody and Janelle's daughters.

Meri, Christine, and Robyn were all raised in polygamist families, but Janelle was raised in a monogamist family. Although Christine's mother left the faith she still supports them. Months before the marriage of Janelle and Kody, however, Janelle's mother entered into a polygamist marriage with Kody's father.[8] The Brown family belonged to the Apostolic United Brethren (AUB), a Mormon fundamentalist group. For years before the series, the family kept their polygamist lifestyle what they called a "quasi-secret"