Whoa! Polygamist solution is frightening...

[The Mrs]

Originally Posted by Newman

The Mrs- The issue is about assigning collective guilt to the whole community because of the actions of a handful of people, if that.

A second issue goes to the very flimsy evidence they had before they began DNA testing. Could/or would that have been authorized if the phone call was known to be a hoax?

A third issue would go to how responsible we should hold mothers given the environment they were themselves raised in.

A fourth issue goes to what Texas could have done to prevent this sudden trauma and upheaval of the children.

For instance having meetings with all teenagers and letting them know there was life on the outside and a way out when they wanted; and letting the community know they would be monitored regarding future marriages and collective guilt by association.

The bottom line is that I have never seen or heard of taking out a whole community because of child abuse of a few children at the hands of specific individuals. What is going on in your church or neighborhood?

I think this is the crux of the problem right here. From everything that I've been seeing, this group was very evasive when this first happened. They wouldn't give last names, they kept changing their names. They wouldn't give the names of their mothers or fathers. The authorities didn't know who was related to who, and which child came from which family. How could they NOT order DNA testing, and how could they leave any one of the children behind?

I think their hands were tied. They had no other choice.