Monday, May 19, 2008

Polygamy Cults

Watching the news coverage about the children who have been taken away from the polygamy compound, you definitely hear two camps telling their sides. One is the camp saying how sad, this is America, with our constitution, how can this be? The other camp is having interviews from women who were former members of the cult, saying they were forced into marriage at a young age. While I agree it is sad that the women have temporarily lost custody of their children, and that it must be scary for the children to have been removed from the compound, how much scarier is it for them to stay there? Their mothers were forced into this lifestyle, and they want the same for their children? That is a classic neglect and dependent case. I just don't see anything sad about removing children from a situation that would eventually expose them to child rape.

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