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The problem with striving for multiple wives is the next wife is usually always younger, and in most cases, teenagers. Read newspaper reports about the polygamist communities of Colorado City, AZ and Hilldale, UT; teenage boys are routinely physically and mentally abused to try and get them out of the colonies so the elders can assign the teenage girls for marriage to themselves. Utah, using tax payer money, has had to put up several shelters for teenage boys banished from polygamist communities. These boys have been banished for such offenses as asking a girl for a date, playing video games, watching the wrong television shows-anything to get them off the compound and away from the girls' sights. The elders know teenage boys are marriage or sexual partner competition, so they just get rid of the ones they see as a possible blockade to their desired next wife or sexual partner. The facts that the Mormon Church has used only rhetoric against these cults, and Senators Orin Hatch and John McCain have blockaded federal investigation of these communities is really shameful.