Completely leaves out 'The Lost Boys'

While the terrors exacted upon young FLDS girls deserve to be exposed, need to be exposed, must be exposed, this film did a terrible disservice by glossing over "The Lost Boys." As to be expected from a Lifetime movie, the suffering endured by young FLDS boys was completely ignored; they weren't even given the service of a nod during the film's big "I learned something day" closing moments; the ending narration was a slap in the face to these countless young men.

Anyone who came into this movie knowing nothing of the FLDS wouldn't have the slightest idea that young men suffer just as much as young women, albeit in a different matter. Because of the plurality of marriage, and the tendency of older men to take young girls as their brides, there of course come times--frequently--when young men run out of young women to take as brides. The FLDS's solution to this problem is to systematically round up young, single Mormon boys--many of them only 13--exocommunicate them from the church, and then drive them into large cities and abandon them there, literally on the streets. Their only crime was being there; within FLDS, these boys are often referred to as "Surplus." These boys, without any knowledge of the outside world, and being so young, have no idea how to fend for themselves. They usually end up homeless, and many of them have fallen into male prostitution, preyed upon by older males in cities outside FLDS compounds, who are well aware of the "Lost Boys" situation and use it to their advantage, seeking out and manipulating these boys into exchanging sexual favors in exchange for money and other necessities. Still countless others of these young men simply disappear from the face of the earth.

Lifetime has done a disgusting disservice to these victims by completely ignoring their plight. It would have been easy to integrate this problem into the story via the young male protagonist or the female protagonist's daughter. Yet it was roundly ignored; in light of this, it seemed like an additional slap in the face that, out of the female protagonist's two younger children, it was decided that the boy would be the one who would be borderline developmentally disabled and held back a grade, while the girl would be depicted as adapting swiftly and easily to public school.