Reply #17: It's not the polygamy that's the primary issue [View All]

It's the child rape: Most of these girls are younger than 15 when they're "married" off to much, much older men (only the leaders of the community get more wives), who typically are their relatives. (People who have left the group say that there's a major problem with infant mortality and stillbirths because of problems caused by inbreeding.)

Child abandonment is another issue: Because only a few of the men are allowed to have wives, often sons who are not of that inner circle are forced to leave the community in their teens. These youths have had no substantive education and no concept of what the outside world is like. Yet, there have been numerous articles about how they're driven to a nearby town and dropped off with a small amount of money and some clean clothes.

And as someone mentioned upthread, these folks are creating another Waco: stocking up on munitions and preparing for the end of the world.