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MURDER OF A PROPHET: THE DARK SIDE OF UTAH POLYGAMY By John R. Llewellyn List Price $13.95 Copyright - February 2000 Soft Agreka™ Books ISBN 188810693X LC 99-068880 Order Now for the
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A TEENAGER'S TEARS:
When Parents Convert To Polygamy
| A TEENAGER'S TEARS: When Parents Convert To Polygamy By John R. Llewellyn Preface List Price $14.95 Copyright - Feb 2001 Available in Book Stores March 2001 Agreka™ Books ISBN 188810659X Library of Congress 00-108807 Order |
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Introduction
In the Allred Group, known as Apostolic United Brethren, of the children born in the "principle" of plural marriage, many more leave than
stay. For example, of 48 children sired by the late Rulon C. Allred, only about 17 stayed in the principle. This figure is consistent with the
other large polygamist groups. In talking with leading members of the Allred Group, they estimated that between 65 and 80 percent of
their children apostatize.
A few of these dissident children contacted me after reading my novel, Murder of a Prophet. Their stories, together with my own
observation and experiences, inspired me to contact other dissident children and write a second fact-based novel explaining why so many
of these children leave. Their stories deserve to be told.
Apostolic United Brethren, the least oppressive sect of them all, is the basic model for my new novel, but I have also incorporated events
and incidents from the other major groups, and from independent polygamists who belong to no group. I have created fictitious characters
to represent the various types of teens and adults found in polygamy.
Visualize, if you will, what it would be like for an attractive, seventeen year old girl to have her parents suddenly join a polygamist sect.
It happened to Emma. One day her life was normal, the next day she was thrust into a polygamist subculture. Emma’s experiences, and the
experiences of her friends, are typical of hundreds of young people living in cult-like Mormon polygamist sects.
The story is told from Emma’s point of view, and from her perspective she sees little of the polygamist lifestyle to be desired. But as she
moves about in the culture, she meets girls and women who find plural marriage desirable, secure, spiritual, and compatible in ways that
satisfy their present needs and desires. If it were not so, there wouldn’t be so many of them.
Women are the backbone and adhesive element that is indispensable to the success of polygamy. Many find plural marriage enriching,
adventurous, more free and rewarding than monogamy. However, in some groups women are brainwashed and herded around until cut
out like cattle. Others are skillfully programmed with inferiority complexes, making them dependent upon unscrupulous, lecherous
leaders. Still others are raised in isolation making them ill-equipped to compete and survive in a modern cosmopolitan society. Some are
by nature content to allow what they perceive as powerful, righteous men to take control of their lives.
POLYGAMY UNDER
ATTACK:
From Tom Green to
Brian David Mitchell
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POLYGAMY UNDER ATTACK: From Tom Green to Brian David Mitchell |
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authored by John R. Llewellyn: * Murder of a Prophet * Tears of a Teenager: When Parents Convert to Polygamy * POLYGAMY UNDER ATTACK: From Tom Green to Brian David Mitchell |
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