I think the primary issue for me is one of consent. The press stated that teen age girls were forced into marriages and that their husbands used physical punishment as discipline. Now some of us might enjoy such a situation, but none of these girls were asked for consent, if my understanding is correct. So we are talking about rape, assault, abuse, all reasons for removing the girl from the home. However, how those issues could be implied to put infants and children in immediate danger I don't know. And how this danger applied to teenage boys I don't know. I know that it was said by some that they were being taught to be abusers, but I also read that boys/ young men were often expelled from the community so that the older men could have multiple wives. So ultimately there may have been some teenage girls who were legitimately experiencing or in danger of abuse, but that certainly didn't give just cause for removing all of the children.