They did a really poor job telling the story of the mom. Did she get out? Did they get her kids out? I felt like they got bored with it and just didn't finish it.
How did someone so poor at decision making in a crisis raise 12 kids?
But I'm much better now.
I was so frustrated with her, I just wanted to slap her. You could also see the frustration from her children, brothers and sisters. Everyone just wanted her to leave and everyone would help her figure it out later. To answer your question, YES you have wasted your life living in that sh*thole, being a brainwashed baby making factory for those pedophile as*holes. You are a grown woman with free will, its time to act like it. I would then tell him to go ahead and sue me. There is no money to gain from me because you made sure I lived in poverty. As far as trying to take the kids. I'll spill every little dirty secret to every newspaper, tv and internet service before I'd let that happen, so go ahead and try. I'm sure the last thing he wants or needs is anymore bad publicity.
shareI was frustrated with her, too. I remember once she said, "I am not a doormat!" Uh, yes you are. How frustrating for her daughters who've made it out but can't seem to get her to smell the coffee!
That apartment was disgusting. Making kids live there should constitute abuse.
These cults fascinate me for some reason. I was trying to explain polygamy to a 10 year-old & I couldn't think of how to say that, though it's illegal, it's right there on tv.
It's only illegal if they try to have more than one legal marriage. Otherwise, it's just a guy having an affair with a lot of women.
It may not be abuse, but it certainly is child neglect. But Utah looks the other way on those kind of issues.
I dont' get why no one is being prosecuted for incest. Especially the 42 year old uncle with the 15 year old. Even if they didn't have sex, it is illegal sexual assault (kissing is considered sexual). And she hints heavily that it was more than kissing.
But I'm much better now.
Polygamy vs. bigamy. Polygamy doesn't necessarily involve legal marriage. Bigamy is where one person has a "legal" marriage to more than one person. I use quotation marks because the second marriage is, of course, not legal. The couples have obtained marriage licenses.*
I still say lack of prosecution = payoffs.
*http://family-law.lawyers.com/matrimonial-law/i-do-i-do-i-do-is-polygamy-legal.html
They never even talked about her getting child support. Even if half her kids are gone, as rich as the Kingstons are, she should get a decent penny.
What I hated is after they called the health department, she did nothing. She should have called child protective services. She has had many opportunities to leave, especially being treated like *beep* and her kids living in that hellhole.
She doesn't truly have free will. That's what brainwashing takes away. But with the example of her kids, she knew that it could be better. If I recall, in the first season, they had a decent place for her to go and she still stayed.
But I'm much better now.
I agree 100%!!
shareI'm new to this show, and re-enacted or not, knowing the subject is true elicits strong emotions in me. I try to be compassionate, and I believe I am, but I can't help being somewhat judgmental. I've never experienced polygamy, but I grew up with an extremely abusive father and a co-dependent mother. Not only can't I imagine myself tolerating for one minute the rules of these cults, I certainly wouldn't have any patience with this mother. I find her whining, her poor-me attitude, and even her concern - rather too little too late - for her younger children, insulting to the daughter who's trying to help her escape. Where was she when that daughter was forcibly married to a man who beat her? She's lucky to have her; if she was my mother, I'd rescue my siblings and leave her ass in the bed she made. She sounds too much like my mother, bitching about the alimony my father failed to pay her while ignoring the beatings that rendered me disabled with blinding headaches and PTSD.
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