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Texas Polygamy Case: Don't the Boys Count?
Society & Culture (tags: child abuse, Texas Fundamentalist Sect, Polygamy, boys )

Nancy
- 570 days ago - fathersandfamiliesblog.org

Very little attention is paid to the abuse and neglect of the boys. Some as young as 13, frequently expelled from the compound are forced to fend for themselves without education, friends, or adult guidance.

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Mental Health Experts Enlisted to Help With Children of Polygamy Sect
Society & Culture (tags: USA, TX, polygamy, sect, children, child safety, child abuse, kids, mental health, foster care, professionals, healthy children )

Thankful
- 574 days ago - cnn.com

Texas officials bring in professionals to work with kids from polygamous retreat. Kids indoctrinated to fear outside world. Authorities worry about cultural adjustment of living with foster families.

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534 Women, Kids Leave Polygamist Ranch
Society & Culture (tags: child abuse, child neglect, polygamy, Texas, polygamist ranch )

Nancy
- 578 days ago - msnbc.msn.com

401 children have been placed in state custody because a judge deemed them in imminent danger of physical abuse...133 women left the Yearning for Zion Ranch of their own volition along with the children...State troopers were holding an unknown number of men

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Girl, 14, Fled Abuse, 'Mind Control' of Polygamy - USA
Society & Culture (tags: children, child, polygamy, Warren Jeffs, abuse, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of, christians, religion )

Chrissy
- 786 days ago - cnn.com

Sara Hammon saw some of her sisters pulled out of school to be married to men they didn't know. She dreaded a similar fate. And so, she ran away from home before she was old enough to drive legally. She left behind 19 mothers, 74 siblings, and a father

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U.S. Polygamist Community Faces Rare Genetic Disorder
Society & Culture (tags: Arizona, polygamy, Mormon sect, disease, inbreeding, retardation )

Rooibos
- 878 days ago - news.yahoo.com

Arizona (Reuters) - In a dusty neighborhood under sheer sandstone cliffs studded with juniper on the Arizona-Utah border, a rare genetic disorder is spreading through polygamous families on a wave of inbreeding.

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