The thought-provoking Dean Esmay writes:
Whoops. I guess there’s more than a “scintilla” of evidence of what would legally constitute child abuse amongst these cultists, as some have suggested does not exist. Nope, there’s evidence of widespread child abuse (or what would be legally defined as child abuse, anyway) in this cult as a general everyday practice, which is why authorities moved on them in the first place.
This all raises a number of philosophical problems that polygamy presents to modern society.
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.