Well, according to the full talk which Carolyn Jessup gave at the Tattered Cover bookstore, in the link provided, they are just as brutal, in some ways, with their young boys. She said as the boys grow and become competition with the older men who are husbands to so many, they are literally kicked out of the community. Told their fathers reject them, they are not worthy of god, etc. and most end up on the streets in big cities. Her own son was taken out of school at 12 and made to work construction. She said one year the leader kicked out over 100 boys as they came "of age" which became younger and younger, some as young as nine years old. And their mothers have no say in it, of course.

May she and others of her courage continue to be safe and speak out.