Does it bother anyone that the children don’t even know who their parents are?
Yeah, it disgusts me and if the men fall into disfavor and get kicked out the wives and kids get “assigned” to a new man-”yech! Sick.
“Does it bother anyone that the children don’t even know who their parents are?”
That on was discussed to death on a thread last night. Some were very bothered by it. I’d heard an interview with Irene
Spencer, who escaped one of the groups when in her 40s. She said the children were taught to not tell outsiders who their parents were, to avoid providing any info that would aid authorities in proving that polygamous relationships existed.
Does it bother anyone that the children don’t even know who their parents are?”
I think it bothers this judge alot.
I am glad to see that she isn’t going to be a pushover.
The fact that the mothers won’t help to ID the kids and who the fathers are is a real indication that they know they have crossed a really bigline in the society of the USA.
Calling this group a “church” and letting them live this life-style and call it a “religion” is beyond disgusting.
These women have been raised knowing only the domination of the older men, and they know no other rules for life.
I really feel sorry for the whole lot of the women and the children, and also the young men-AKA LOST BOYS- who are turned out on a local road with no money and no contacts to go make their way in the world. It is very apparent that the older men don’t want the younger ones to be any sort of competition for attention to the women.
This is going to take years to untangle, and some of these women will never be independent.
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“Does it bother anyone that the children don’t even know who their parents are?”
My take has been how can anyone say a child has been taken from a parent when no parent has identified their child and no child has identified their parent. It’s just a sick set of women and “men” who won’t identify their children.