A group of men from the Polygamist Ranch down in Texas where some fifty young girls were removed because they were being married off while underage have launched a PR offensive, trying to appeal to the general population of the United States in an attempt to get their children back. Now, I can understand being upset, angry, livid that your children were yanked out of your house by the cops. I really can. And I can understand that you’re going to do anything you can to get them back. What I can’t understand is why you’d claim you were ignorant of Texas state law (which prohibits marriage for women under 18, or 16 when parental consent is given, which it probably was in each of these cases) and why you’d let someone marry your minor child and get them pregnant? Of 53 girls ages 14-17 that were taken from the sect’s property, 31 have children or are pregnant. That’s almost two-thirds of the sect’s MINOR females that are either pregnant or who have ALREADY had children. Couple that with a story from a former sect member who was talking on PBS about how young boys are often sent out in the “real world” to fend for themselves as they become adolescents (lest they compete with the older men for these young girls’ affections), and you just have to say, “you know what? I don’t want to hear it.” Frankly, I’m surprised most of these fathers thought people would give a damn. You subject your children to abuse and then think the public is going to help you pressure the authorities to give them back to you? Wow. Talk about delusional thinking.

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