Honestly,
I’m finding the terms ‘marriage’ or ‘what’s the big deal with pregnant teens’ disgusting on these threads.
These girls are raped breeding stock. Odds are the ‘sex’ they’ve experienced has been painful and awful and yeah, scary. They are not wives.
Scary, yeah. Women who have exited the cult say that most of these girls think that babies are conceived through kissing. Imagine their shock and horror when they are raped. ugh
We need to realize where this "breeding" mentality originated. LDS Mormons call the "top three" in their church "the First Presidency." In 1899, the "first counselor" member of the "First Presidency" was George Q. Cannon, whose two sons maintained control at one point of the Mormon-owned Deseret News.
The People of the world do not believe in breeding, but we do. -- LDS member of the First Presidency, 1899
At a stake conference, Cannon said: The people of the world do not believe in breeding, but we do. So the people of the world will die out and we will fill the whole earth. I admit those raising children by plural wives are not complying with man-made laws, but in the sight of God they are not sinning, as there is no sin in it. (George Q. Cannon, Sanpete Stake conference, Sept., 1899. Smoot Investigation, Vol. 1, p. 9.)
Please note that fLDS still to this very day reference Cannon's quote.