Reply #41: No, they do NOT let them marry the older wives

[Tansy_Gold]

Please do just a tiny bit of research. The google and the wikipedia are your friends.

SOME, but very few, boys are groomed to become accepted members of the male community, but many to most are simply exiled to the outside world as unnecessary carriers of excess sperm. These are the "Lost Boys" who end up on the streets of Las Vegas and Phoenix, uneducated and unprepared for the world outside their FLDS enclave.

In addition to all the other problems these boys face is that they have been raised in an environment where women and girls are seen as objects, not human beings. This fundamental (pun intended) attitude makes reaching out to these boys very difficult, since most social workers and other who would provide services are women.

The abuse perpetrated by the FLDS is not reserved for the women and girls alone. Hundreds and hundreds of young men, too, are kicked out, told they are unworthy of their god's grace, treated as worse than dead by their families. The FLDS elite males are, pretty much, equal opportunity abusers.



Tansy Gold, who has worked with a couple of Colorado City escapees