I agree, their living situation was absolutely insane. When I was in high school, there was a family that sorta reminded me of the Yates family. The mom and daughters always had to wear dresses and keep their heads covered. They were part of an obscure Christian cult. I always felt bad for them, but didn't really get annoyed until we had a really bad snow storm that year. While the dad sat on his duff, the mother and three daughters, wearing dresses, went out there and shoveled the snow. My dad, feeling bad for them, went there and shoveled for them, while the girls' father sat inside on his butt.