A Teenagers Tears : When Parents Convert to Polygamy
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A growing number of people enter polygamy each year. Travel that world through a modern day family that leaves traditional Mormonism and enters polygamy. Editorial Reviews. From the Publisher. Individuals and families considering polygamy need to.
Jun 13, Rachel rated it liked it. It was neither great nor terrible. I was really bored, but at the same time, really interested. I was most interested in finding out another religion's beliefs in God, marriage, heaven, and lifestyle, and I can say that the fundamentalist religion is not one I would accept, although the book made it clear that it does work for some people.
Jan 12, Priscilla Herrington rated it liked it. Llewellyn, a former sheriff in Utah who investigated Mormon polygamist crimes, including murder and child sex abuse, has written A Teenager's Tears: When Parents Convert to Polygamy, inspired by actual events, to shed some light on the phenomenon of persons converting to various polygamous sects. However, there are a number of breakawa John R. However, there are a number of breakaway groups who believe that the LDS did not have the authority to reverse a main tenet of the faith as handed down by Joseph Smith; these groups claim that they hold the true priesthood.
They feud among themselves, and they all rail against the LDS and the federal government. Polygamy remains illegal in the United States and so they tend to live in semi isolation. I found this book fascinating. I can perhaps understand that people who grow up in polygamy and know nothing else would expect to enter into polygamous marriage when they come of age.
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I have heard about the poverty in which many families live, about the subjugation of women to their husbands and the subjugation of whole families to their Prophet; about the sometimes incestuous couplings as a man marries a woman and her daughters, or the daughters of his brother; about the young boys who are driven away so as not to be competition with the men for the young girls. I was surprised by what I learned from this book. The main character is a teenage girl whose father has become convinced he must live polygamy in order to become a god after the Resurrection.
He moves his wife, daughter and young son to a trailer in a polygamous compound. The wife has agreed to give it a try. The daughter is horrified when she sees her father dancing with a girl only slightly older than herself, a girl who becomes her father's second wife.
The daughter tries to understand what is going on and meets other teenagers who are highly skeptical of this way of life and plan to leave as soon as they can. But she also meets women who find that polygamy suits them, and she has some admiration for these women although she herself cannot accept polygamy. The appendix discusses groups that work to decriminalize polygamy in Utah - some from a belief that for those who wish to practice and do so voluntarily, removing the need to hide would be beneficial - and others to remove the stigma and isolation and thus make it easier for women wishing to leave to do so.
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English Choose a language for shopping. They feud among themselves, and they all rail against the LDS and the federal government. Kate marked it as to-read Feb 23, Llewellyn finally became one and associated with the Allred Group after he retired from the Sheriff's Office. Impressed with the integrity, virtue and undaunted conviction of many of the polygamists, Llewellyn became a member of AUB, but when the leadership claimed they were the sole conduit to a celestial exaltation, Llewellyn left.
Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Showing of 4 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. It was hard to put this novel down. It's sad to think that this same thing is really happening to real girls in real families. I wish I had the money to help all of them get out of cults like the one in the book so they could have a chance at a happy life. After reading many books on the RLDS, I still can't see why law enforcement and gov't can't put an end to all their illegal activities.
Who will stand up and fight for the girls rights? I would highly recommend this book to any one doing a study on anything from cults to women's rights. This is an okay read, but not the best story. I think it would have been better to have put together a few true stories rather than fabricate one, since it is taken from facts the author learned. One person found this helpful. This is a fact based fictional book written by a former polygamist insider who was once a policeman in Utah. I feel he did a good job at portraying the struggles a young girl and her family would undergo in such a situation.
Although do keep in mind, the real life model for this book was the least oppressive fundamentalist polygamist group in Utah, so although the books main character Emma went through a lot,she did not suffer some of the horrific incidents that have happened in other groups. The dialogue was down to earth, free flowing and unpretentious.
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The story was well paced and believable. He also has a deft working knowledge of the doctrines and operations of such groups. I recommend this book if you are interested in polygamy, Mormon Fundamentalism or just like fact based fiction. This is a heart wrenching story of a beautiful young girl born into a middle class Mormon family whose father has made the decision for leave the comfort of their local LDS Ward, friends and family to embrace a lifestyle that will encompass lust, greed, abuse and mind control.
Think for moment how you would feel if you came home one day to find that you were going to leave all that you knew and loved to be told you were going into a remote area to join a polygamist cult. Imagine that you will not be able to fulfill your dreams of college; marry the boy you love; not be able to ever think for yourself again. You will have to wear funny long dresses; wear no make up;a hairdo that even your grandmother would have a problem wearing; no TV, movies, boyfriends or girl friends of your choice. You may think this is a fictional story, think again, this story is true and happens more often you you can imagine.
Yes, the characters are fiction but the lifestyle of polygamy portrayed is true. I know; I live in Southern Utah where several thousand polygamist live. There is rape and abuse in the form of underage "spiritual marriage" to men old enough to be their father, maybe even grandfather.
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It is a cult run by fear and threat. Not to obey is grounds for excommunication; your family given to another more worthy man; your mother given as a "wife" and as her daughter you would be given as his wife also. Your property and money that you earn is no longer yours to use as you want; It is communal.
This is a story of one young womans courageous fight for her life and future.
It is the story of a woman who loves her husband and has to make some hard choices and decisions that go against the prophets authority that states women are to submit to their husband or lose their eternal salvation and be dammed. Women are required to share their husband with one, two, three or more women called "sister wives"as is the case in this story.
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