If you’re anyone who's everyone, you have recently watched the news or read a newspaper article about the 400+ children who were taken from a ranch in Texas. That does not include the 100+ women who chose to leave on their own free will. So, it that right for the children to be taken away? Here are my two points on the subject.
1. The teenage girl who tipped off the police said that they were being beaten, raped and abused. Many of the children under the age of 18 who were married were found to be pregnant. Now, these are girls are 13, 14, 15, 16 years old. These girls are said to be forced into marriage with an older man and expected to start producing children. Then the cycle starts all over again when their children marry at a young age as well.
2. This is also the only life the children know. Think of the trauma they will face when confronted with things that they were taught was dangerous to them but not to us. Many of them are probably fighting to go back to life they just left.
Think about it. We are probably doing more harm to the children by taking them away from their “family”, than by leaving them there. I’m not saying I agree with polygamy, I just think that we need to find a better way of dealing with stuff like this
So, is this a correct way to live? Should we pull out abused children?
(*Note: Different news site posted different numbers*)
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