This isn't about the polygamy aspect, but in regards to the young boys. There hasn't been much news coverage about it, but the young boys are showing up as being abused also.

It is very difficult for all involved, especially the children since they know nothing else and have been scared about the outsiders (normal society.) But children are resilient and while they will have to work through this abuse that's happened in their lives, they can begin to have good lives now without the abuse. I think there was at least one mother who also "left" the compound (meaning she stayed out, with her child, though not in the same place physically as her child.)

There have been many others who have come out from brainwashing compounds, indeed I can recall a time when it was in the news all the time of parents having a PI kidnap their child from a cult following and take them to a specialist etc for "normalization" so to speak.

We can legislate what is best for the country as a whole, for the people. There will always be those who think otherwise. It's one thing for people to honestly, truly choose what they get themselves into, and still another when they are taken or convinced by perverts as to what they "want."

It might also be more shocking to us, this event, because we assume that Americans have free will and freedom to choose... and it obvious that these people just didn't?