Their way of life is often called into question, and fans of their show saw how it nearly got them in trouble and forced them to move to a new state, but the women of TLC's Sister Wives are speaking out about their plural marriage arrangement-and are saying why they wouldn't change things.

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In interviews for the show, Meri, Christine, Robin and Janelle Brown, the four wives of Kody Brown and collective mothers of his 17 children, all sat down to explain what drew them to the arrangement.

"People always ask us, 'why plural marriage?' and I always think it's funny because I try to come up with an answer like 'I was called to do this,' or 'I really like the idea of having sister wives,'" Christine says in a clip from the show. "But it's just the fact that I met Kody Bad-A Brown, and I got to pick him and marry him."

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"I saw beauty in it...there's definitely challenges, but I saw a lot of beauty," Robin added. "People want to be married because they see these old couples, and they're still in love, and they're still sitting next to each other and they're still looking at the sunsets. And they're still going, 'you know, we made it through, we figured it out, we continued through our ups-and-downs and our changes, we figured out how to still love each other.'...and that's what I saw, and went 'I want to do that. I want to achieve that.' That's why I chose plural marriage."

The family also revealed in a separate July 10 clip how much the arrangement benefits not only them, but their kids as well, because there are times where each individual child needs guidance that their actual mother cannot provide.

"The one thing that I found in this family is that each mother has been able to criss-cross to another mother's child and actually be the one that reaches that child," Kody said. "I know that Christine had an amazing ability to reach Janelle's children. And now...Robin has been able to reach Christine's children. It seems like we are meeting the needs of our children in many cases better than we would have as just monogamous."

"I would say that is probably one of the most important things," Meri said. "I mean it's great for our relationship and stuff, but I think it's definitely tops for our kids."

The family previously was forced to leave their homes in Utah when they faced prosecution for their marriage-which was illegal in the state. In order to avoid their family being ripped apart, they all transferred to Las Vegas, Nevada-where they have been working to improve their lives and launch a jewelry business called My Sister Wife's Closet.

Most recently, on the July 13 episode of the show, the family met with another polygamist family while on a Spring Break road trip-where they learned how that family dealt with the pressures on their individual relationships and attended a Passover Seder.

Sister Wives airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on TLC.

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