I was reading somewhere that the classes are only 8 hours. It’s a start but it seems to me that it needs to be ongoing in order to give support and provide time for questions and feedback.
As for as the men..maybe not older men (and women) whose hearts are hardened, but the younger..learning how to be a better father can’t hurt.
I agree with you. That "better" father would not accept, as a wife or "celestial" wife, a girl who is many years younger than he is. That father would not insist that one of his daughters marry anyone on the say so of Warren Jeffs or any of the honchos (maybe himself).
I don't know how men and women can agree to those terms without leaving the FLDS.