Cultural Guide Created to Help Kids Taken from Polygamist Compound
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services has created a “cultural guide” aimed at helping the workers who are taking care of the 464 FLDS children now in state custody.
The guide makes for interesting reading. It covers all kinds of topics from what the children ate at the ranch (no pork or processed foods and snacks) to recreation (the kids are used to having simple toys like balls or jump ropes and no red toys are allowed.)
The guide also contains a glossary of terms that the children might use. Here are three examples that stuck out most to me…
Corrected or Handled: When an FLDS member is disciplined by being forced to leave his home or having his wives and children “reassigned” to another man.
Curse of Cain: Some fundamentalists believe African Americans are an inferior race. They also believe that black people are descendants of Cain and have been cursed by God and therefore ineligible to hold the priesthood.
Poofers: A slang term for girls who suddenly disappear from their community in order to take part in an arranged marriage. The girls are either kept hidden or moved to another state or country.
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I, really don’t think anybody should be concerned with the lives of the children, other then be very carefull not to trumatize them. while it probably is true you would not raise children the way that these peole are doing, I doubt that you could actually do any better, because the real threats to children are other things that you can’t protect them from. things like auto accidents, pandemics, and the dangerous other kids that seem to always have things like guns or drugs. There are other things like the morals of the childrens parents, divorce, and just being totally poor. most of the things mentioned are not dangerous threats for these kids who will grow up nice and healthy. and If they try to leave they will, trust me no one will be capable of stopping them, no one can stop the kids being raised in more traditional homes from leaving. If it’s like other instances where chidrens welfare is held to be the issue, the people who are most vocal don’t , infact, have children themselves.
Wow, Raymond. So, being brainwashed into believing that you can’t go to heaven if you don’t participate in a polygamous marriage is ok? Teaching kids that it’s ok to get married to and have sex with a man 3 times your age when you’re 14 is none of my business?
I’m concerned for these children. I see them as being abused, and I think something should be done about it. BTW, I am the married mother of two beautiful daughters. http://beverlym.myphotoalbum.com/slideshow.php?set_albumName=album02, so I’m a bit of an anomaly to your theory that the vocal ones don’t have kids. I do. I know how fragile their little spirits are, and I know how they absorb what they are taught like sponges.
I don’t want any children to be taught that rape is ok if the ‘prophet’ insists on it. No, it’s rape. It’s breaking the law. Polygamy is breaking the law. And if these people were truly Christians, they would know that God commands us to abide by the laws of our country. They wouldn’t teach their children that God commands them to break the law.