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To: LindyBill who wrote (245185)4/10/2008 2:54:14 PM
From: Nadine Carroll   of 793909
 
No doubt. But nobody there has a gun to their head. The question is, at what point is the the State justified to go in with a gun and jail them and institutionalize their kids? Is this right?


I have heard interviews of women who escaped from this compounds. They describe a Taliban-like existence where those women who want to leave are watched and forcibly restrained, and face the terrible choice of trying to take their children (who have been taught to accept the system) or abandon them forever. They describe a system where the most favored men take all the girls in forced marriages, and the excess boys are simply expelled as teenagers, put out at the side of the road like unwanted kittens.

I think that the point where a girl escapes and accuses her 'husband' of rape is a legitimate point for the State to act.
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