The women give their minds over to the men. Families have intermarried over the decades so that husbands and wives commonly are stepsiblings and cousins. They're all living like sardines. Everyone talks about family values, but these people, they've really got family values. They've got 20 to 30 children who've all got to get along.
Money is always tight.
They're more committed to family than anyone else I've seen in America,'' said Scott Berry, a Salt Lake City lawyer representing the church. They probably feel pretty badly that they've devoted large chunks of their lives to the church. They're pretty bitter about that. They have their own agenda and will tell their yarns to anyone who will listen,'' he said. Berry, his attorney, refuses to confirm that number, saying it's ''impolite'' to ask.