"If you have a son or daughter in your home, and their behavior got worse and worse and they defied you, wouldn't you want them to leave?"
Um... no? I mean, nice try, mister, I get that you're trying to say all these teenage boys were frightful delinquents who couldn't be helped, but you fail.
ETA: It's not that anything would make his take more convincing, but do they think no one's noticed that it's just the boys? Sad, sad, sad. And I'm creeped out by not just the sexism but the mathematical implications of needing three wives to enter the "highest level" of heaven.
And, dude, if your community is producing that many unsavable kids, maybe you're doing something wrong, somewhere.
Polygamy's much more workable when many of your young men are getting killed in wars.
Sad story. So much wrongness.
So, um, we could make wars to send the young men off to so that the old men can get into heaven, bowm chikka bowm bowm?
Yeah. Wrod on the wrongness.
"If you have a son or daughter in your home, and their behavior got worse and worse and they defied you, wouldn't you want them to leave?"
Um... no? I mean, nice try, mister, I get that you're trying to say all these teenage boys were frightful delinquents who couldn't be helped, but you fail.
ETA: It's not that anything would make his take more convincing, but do they think no one's noticed that it's just the boys?
Well, they probably thought it would play better in Peoria than "If you have a son or daughter in your home, and their behavior got worse and worse and they defied you, and they'd finally sprouted boobs wouldn't you want them to marry one of your eighty-six uncles?"
"If you have a son or daughter in your home, and their behavior got worse and worse and they defied you, and they'd finally sprouted boobs wouldn't you want them to marry one of your uncles?"
Touch, Miz Trudy, a veritable touch.
You know, depending on the laws in AZ and UT, they can probably go after the fathers for child support.
explain to their very nice and infinitely patient non-Puerto Rican teacher what Reggaeton is.
hey, kat p, can you explain it to me?
You know, depending on the laws in AZ and UT, they can probably go after the fathers for child support.
In some polygamous communities, the mothers don't say who the father is just for that reason. It helps with the welfare system, too.
In some polygamous communities, the mothers don't say who the father is just for that reason. It helps with the welfare system, too.
the court can compel a paternity test, but not without the mother starting the proceedings.
