Polygamy and the Degradation of Women

If a husband who practices polygamy is ready to be rid of a dissatisfied wife, he might agree to let her go, but not with her children. Hell and losing her children is the choice these women of polygamy face.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/783225/how_polygamy_impacts_the_welfare_system_pg2.html?cat=9

When the elders of YFZ Ranch in Texas tried to quash a 16-year-old bride’s rebellion, they warned that the outside world would force her to have sex with “lots of men.” Apparently equally important, she would have to cut her hair and wear makeup.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/verena-von-pfetten/the-lowdown-on-fundamenta_b_96786.html

… Such sinners, according to FLDS doctrine, are supposed to willingly submit to blood-atonement carried out by their “priestly head” — their father, husband or brother. “They slit your throat from ear-to-ear and disembowel you,” Mackert said, “and that’s the only way you’re redeemed.”

http://www.thenewstribune.com/updates/story/635081.html

If you refused to marry the chosen husband, Doe testified, you would “lose your chance at salvation.” How could she refuse to obey the husband who was “my ticket into heaven”?

http://www.alternet.org/rights/63071/

In the largest release of evidence to date, hundreds of pages of dictations by Jeffs to his wife Naomie were unsealed last week, painting a picture in Jeffs’ own words of a paranoid leader whose meticulous control over his flock knew no bounds, continuing even after his arrest and imprisonment for arranging a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin.

http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/41070