Is 'Sister Wives' Hiding The Disturbing Truth About Polygamy?
9/7/11 - Sam Brower
Despite the recent well-publicized and deeply disturbing child molestation
trial of self-proclaimed polygamist prophet Warren Jeffs, TV reality show
polygamist Kody Brown and his trendy wives and family seem to be everywhere
these days. Their TV show, "Sister Wives," is a big hit....
For more than seven years, as a private investigator I have been
investigating and researching similar polygamous societies, but mainly the
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) and its outlaw
prophet, Warren Jeffs, who is now serving a sentence of life plus twenty years
in a Texas prison....
I can only hope and pray that the depravity of child abuse and the
degradation of women and children to the status of chattel will never be thought
of in such a callous manner as simply- unconventional yet relatable.
In my world, unconventional doesn't mean four mommies showing up for
back-to-school night; the FLDS do not send their kids to public schools. If
they're lucky, the children may receive the equivalent of an eighth grade
education before being sent out to work on a construction job, or to become
mothers themselves.
Admittance into the bride pool can begin within a few weeks after a
child's twelfth birthday. "Mother" is the person who raises and nurtures you as a
"daughter in Zion" over the course of those short formative years. She
then takes you by the hand and places it in the hand of a man decades older,
in an arranged "spiritual sexual union," alongside that man's several or
many other "sister wives."
9/7/11 - Sam Brower
Despite the recent well-publicized and deeply disturbing child molestation
trial of self-proclaimed polygamist prophet Warren Jeffs, TV reality show
polygamist Kody Brown and his trendy wives and family seem to be everywhere
these days. Their TV show, "Sister Wives," is a big hit....
For more than seven years, as a private investigator I have been
investigating and researching similar polygamous societies, but mainly the
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) and its outlaw
prophet, Warren Jeffs, who is now serving a sentence of life plus twenty years
in a Texas prison....
I can only hope and pray that the depravity of child abuse and the
degradation of women and children to the status of chattel will never be thought
of in such a callous manner as simply- unconventional yet relatable.
In my world, unconventional doesn't mean four mommies showing up for
back-to-school night; the FLDS do not send their kids to public schools. If
they're lucky, the children may receive the equivalent of an eighth grade
education before being sent out to work on a construction job, or to become
mothers themselves.
Admittance into the bride pool can begin within a few weeks after a
child's twelfth birthday. "Mother" is the person who raises and nurtures you as a
"daughter in Zion" over the course of those short formative years. She
then takes you by the hand and places it in the hand of a man decades older,
in an arranged "spiritual sexual union," alongside that man's several or
many other "sister wives."
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