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FLDS classes to focus on 'core strengths'

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re Alex | 11:45 a.m. Aug. 5, 2008
I would agree with you that just a multiwife multichildren environment doesn't breed abuse.

But if you throw in the caveat that it's a repressive environment and also if you fail to keep them in line you could be expelled - then that is a breeding ground for mental and physical abuse.

In fact, abuse would be mandatory in that situation. I submit that there is no way to live in the FLDS, under current management rules, without mandatory abuse. Even if the abuse occurs when the children are extremely young, so the father doesn't have to deal with insubordination later, it's still abuse.
avengeance | 9:41 a.m. Aug. 7, 2008
Lets force inner city single parents and their kids to sit through this, or take away their freestuffs if they don't. I'm sure it'll do just as much good there.
Interloper | 12:32 p.m. Aug. 8, 2008
Most of the FLDS apologists' comments on this thread are evasions - look at some false claim about Muslims, or CPS, or poor folks, or, particularly strangely, Sen. Obama, they say. But, don't look at the evidence of sexual abuse of children and other crimes by the FLDS being amassed. Fortunately, the legal system will not allow such silly attempts at changing the subject any footing. Nor is the general public naive enough to be distracted from the issues by this childish tactic.

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