Sir, I mean you no disrespect, but I can assure you that I would prefer to go through combat again than "awaken" one more time. Yes they are responsible for themselves, but you just don't understand how powerful the hold is, especially if it begins in youth and it's all you know.
Don't hate them, teach them. They will make their own choices and pay their own consequences, and will be judged by God, not us.
A real family affair!!!
-— The marriage of mother and daughter to one man
was of so common an occurrence that it ceased to
be regarded as anything out of the ordinary course
of events.
I had some schoolmates, two sisters, whose mother
was married to a Mr. McDonald and when she gave herself
to him, it was with the express understanding that
the daughters should be sealed to him as soon as they
were of a proper age. The little girls knew of
the arrangement, and used to talk very openly of
“marrying Pa,” and in very much the same way
they would speak of their intention to take tea
to a friend.
Ann Young, Wife #19, Chapter XIX