Is it OK for 16 year old boys to have sex or marry 18 year old girls? Or 18 year old boys? or 20 year old boys? Where is the cut off? Is the whole thing about ages? My grandmother was 15 when she married my grandfather. I’m 10 years older than my wife. This whole thing is a mess.
A) Some of the women appear happy. B) some of the kids do too. C) is the only thing the young age of the “wives” or is it the fact they marry old coggers? Lets get the whole story before we start to rip kids away from their families.
You need to read up on this bunch. They’ve already been “ripped away from their families” long before the authorities arrived at the ranch. Children are not generally left with their mothers. They are cared for by other women in the community. Most don’t even know who their mothers are, let alone their fathers.
“Is it OK for 16 year old boys to have sex or marry 18 year old girls? Or 18 year old boys? or 20 year old boys? Where is the cut off? Is the whole thing about ages? My grandmother was 15 when she married my grandfather. I’m 10 years older than my wife. This whole thing is a mess.
A) Some of the women appear happy. B) some of the kids do too. C) is the only thing the young age of the “wives” or is it the fact they marry old coggers? Lets get the whole story before we start to rip kids away from their families.”
Why ask unrelated questions?
A number of the men have been convicted on the sex crimes of the under age girls and the “marriages” already, including their leader.
Do you believe that he and they should be returned to the cult to continue the activities?
Yes and it is no longer 1850, the current year is 2008, things change.
There may be the bigger problem of inbreeding and what these kids are bred for.
What you said....mimics my own feelings and family history.
While i don’t think 50 year olds should bed 14 year old girls. Folks here act like if the woman is under 18 or even 21 then it’s horrible.
For the record, I’m 50. My is 42.