Here are some links.

Jul 4, 2024
6:25:29pm

HarlemCoug All-American

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_GkQGUGlW8

Boys Cast Out by Polygamists Find Help (Published 2007)

Over the last six years, hundreds of teenage boys have been forced out of a polygamous settlement on the Arizona-Utah border.

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/us/09polygamy.html

https://www.abc4.com/news/digital-exclusives/10-years-after-jeffs-conviction-utah-polygamist-community-wrestles-with-changes-in-documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1OkK7P4bng&t=17s

Wikipedia

Lost_boys_%28Mormon_fundamentalism%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_boys_%28Mormon_fundamentalism%29[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_boys_(Mormon_fundamentalism)]

the Guardian

The lost boys, thrown out of US sect so that older men can marry more wives

Up to 1,000 teenage boys have been separated from their parents and thrown out of their communities by a polygamous sect to make more young women available for older men, Utah officials claim.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/14/usa.julianborger

Deseret News

Home for 'Lost Boys'

The kids call it "the house just off Bluff."

https://www.deseret.com/2007/7/30/20032424/home-for-lost-boys/

Los Angeles Times

After fleeing polygamist sect, boys face a new world

Zach Bowers, a young refugee from a breakaway polygamist sect of the Mormon Church, is learning life in the outside world.

https://www.latimes.com/local/great-reads/la-na-utah-lost-boys-20130508-dto-htmlstory.html

ABC News

Hundreds of 'Lost Boys' Expelled by Polygamist Community

https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=851753&page=1

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My son just applied at an FLDS owned construction company. Bad idea?

SwanSong

Jul 4, 12:48am

I think my BIL worked for them in St george. Pretty sure things went fine.

Undefeated

Jul 4, 12:52am

Reading thread, my bil might have worked for a different dude. Did electrician

Undefeated

Jul 4, 3:13pm

It’s an Electrical contractor

SwanSong

Jul 4, 3:16pm

Hmm, maybe the same.

Undefeated

Jul 4, 3:35pm

I recently did a build in southern Utah. A good friend of mine in the

RalphWiggam

Jul 4, 12:59am

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bookofdaniel

Jul 4, 7:31am

I’ve used them on some big framing projects and they are awesome. Very detailed

bookofdaniel

Jul 4, 7:32am

I’d be worried he’d join

DKN

Jul 4, 1:05am

As long as it's not your daughter

Blueto

Jul 4, 1:10am

I used them to build a parade home in St. George years ago - great experience

Jersey hunter

Jul 4, 2:07am

It'd really be no different than working for a mob owned construction company or a cartel owned construction company.

foofcoug

Jul 4, 6:27am

They drop their 18 year old boys off in St George and abandon them. How anyone could help them in any way is beyond

HarlemCoug

Jul 4, 6:37am

Not to mention what they do to their underage girls. Then there's the whole thing with the systematic defrauding

foofcoug

Jul 4, 6:40am

Exactly. I'm shocked by the responses so far.

HarlemCoug

Jul 4, 6:42am

That doesn’t sound incredibly evil to me

puntersarepeople

Jul 4, 9:41am

What? They drop them off in St George with no money, no place to live, no car, and their parents never speak to them

HarlemCoug

Jul 4, 10:10am

I didn't know they weren't allowed to speak to their children afterwards

puntersarepeople

Jul 4, 10:34am

No they don't. How can you not know this? They drop their 18 year boys off and never speak to them again. They drop them

HarlemCoug

Jul 4, 10:42am

I’ve known many people in the FLDS faith and I think you’re full of crap

Blue2thebone

Jul 4, 12:00pm

There are many polygamist sects out there not all evil like the Warren Jeffs FLDS group and that man and his leadership

BYU Grounds

Jul 4, 10:51am

So gross. Shame on you. Polygamy today all of the LDS communities are evil. Full stop.

HarlemCoug

Jul 4, 11:05am

You’re really on a roll on this thread you’re full of crap

Blue2thebone

Jul 4, 12:01pm

Here are some links.

HarlemCoug

Jul 4, 6:25pm

I don’t need links. grew up around some of these folks. Played ball with them. None of them were kicked out at 18

Blue2thebone

Jul 4, 9:31pm

At least it is not carpet cleaning. But even then, they probably wouldn't want

BYULAWGUY

Jul 4, 6:38am

You sure it’s FLDS or are they just polygamous? My brother framed for a company

cre1ghton

Jul 4, 6:45am

Yes the owner was in the news for the insurance fraud but wasn’t put in jail

SwanSong

Jul 4, 7:59am

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JimmyZ

Jul 4, 8:52am

My experience was with a polygamist company - not sure if they were FLDS

Jersey hunter

Jul 4, 8:45am

They're hard working

CougarBuddy

Jul 4, 7:28am

So are drug dealers and prostitutes

foofcoug

Jul 4, 7:41am

One wife not enough? Need to marry off some daughters... Uh... quickly?

Les IsMore

Jul 4, 8:47am

Yeah, that seems like a bad idea to me.

russkiejedi

Jul 4, 9:50am

They’re a terrible organization - well documented. So…..yea, bad idea. There are other options for jobs.

Boys Cast Out by Polygamists Find Help (Published 2007)

Lost_boys_%28Mormon_fundamentalism%29

The lost boys, thrown out of US sect so that older men can marry more wives

Home for 'Lost Boys'

After fleeing polygamist sect, boys face a new world

Hundreds of 'Lost Boys' Expelled by Polygamist Community

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