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Originally Posted by Mac Donn
I seem to recall reports a few years ago of the FLDS exiling young males from their community by basically dumping them on the highway. This had of course the added benefit of leaving more single women for the polygamous elders. Bunch of deluded fuckwits. I've no problem with consenting adults bowing before Joseph Smith's imagination (or St. Paul's, Mohammed, Moses' etc.) but when it clearly effects children -marriages at 13)taken away their rights then fuck 'em. The argument for early marriages that may carry weight in developing countries doesn't really hold water here. Does it?
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I didn't say I agreed with their choices of how they wanted to live. They obviously have not been policing themselves, and show a complete lack of judgement in some cases, but this is just an opinion of what was portrayed in the media.
Early marriage is only for developing countries? marriage is a cultural thing and has nothing to do with infrastructure.
If a law suit or investigation had been brought by a former member that caused an armed attack on the ranch, then it would have more plausibility, but to tear these families apart just because they have differring values from the mainstream is poor judgement.
Educating these teens (children) would play a large part in a healthy community. If they want to have early marriage as a part of that community, then hopefully, the people involved in deciding to marry have enough education and up-bringing to make a voluntary choice and not one under duress or under exclusionary circumstances.
The issue of teen pregnancy in Texas is interesting because about 30% of those pregnancies end in abortion. I would imagine that there are areas where the teen pegnancy rate is higher, and, if so, what are the other elements in these areas that show that in a lot of ways, these FLDS people were doing some things right.
The extremism of this religious community sure raises my brow, especially; when I see how these people communicate with "outsiders" However, keeping their children away from bad influences is a good choice, but I would say, raising young breeding stock is not a good choice, and for the elder population of that community, who obviously have had to have an outside education, to stand by and not do anything is shocking, not because it has not happened before, but because of the sheer numbers of elders that reside in that community.
Anyways, teen pregnancy in Texas is a bit more common than in other areas of the U.S. And, I did catch that bit about being close to the Mexican border. This may indeed affect the numbers, but in that case, given the values of most Mexican families, the abortion rate would not reflect such a high number in relation to it.
Texas and their pregnant teens
