Summary Of Escape By Caroly Carolyn Jessop

In polygamous culture, men typically have several wives and dozens of children, which makes for an extensive family tree. With several wives with differing personalities, there is bound to be problems and disagreements. According to The Meditteranean College of Social Sciences (2014), “the rivalry between the co- wives more often than not prove damaging to the children in polygamous families due to the pitting against each other and forcing to choose sides” (Thobejane, 2014, p.1059). While severe arguments do not occur in every polygamous family, or any family for that matter, they do happen. Polygamous children grow up with the value that they need to pick a side in order to be acceptable to society, which is not the truth. Learning to pick sides at such young ages makes for a future generation that doesn’t know the importance of neutrality, which only negatively affects them in the long run. …show more content…
The abuse she and her children endured, both physically and mentally, got to the point where she felt she needed to escape. The memoir, Escape, written by Jessop herself, tells gruesome tales of what her life was like in polygamous culture. On the way out the door before leaving Utah forever, her children yelled “we don’t belong to you! We belong to the prophet! You have no right to us” (Jessop, 2007, p.8). Not only were her children pitted against one another by the religion, they had been brainwashed into thinking they no longer belonged to their mother, and instead to