Polygamy-not so much fun

"Reporters David Kelly and Gary Cohn sifted through court records, investigative reports and interviews by the Times to offer readers a glimpse into a closed world where sect members force girls as young as 13 into arranged marriages. The girls then work at homes, often organizing eating shifts of large families around a picnic table. Husbands threaten wives with commitment to mental institutions 'if they fail to 'keep sweet' or obedient,' Kelly and Cohn write. Some 400 boys as young as 13 have been kicked out of town, 'abandoned like unwanted pets by the side of the road and forcibly ostracized from their families to reduce competition among the men for multiple wives,' according to the Times. Others must leave school at age 11 or 12 and work in dangerous construction jobs. Rapists and child molesters are protected by religious authorities and law enforcement."