Polyamous Genetic Defect

They’re going to need to pray harder about it. Ironically, it is science that appears to be keeping them alive.

I hate to sound cold about it. However, there is no convincing people like this. They have their beliefs and folklore about what is causing this. I think the most humane thing to do is to let them die out.

It’s most tragic, and I do feel badly for the children. They didn’t ask for this.

One of my cousins married a man who had this religious belief that drove their constant breeding. I think he was Mormon, but I’m not really sure. I was too young to remember that detail.

What I do remember is that they moved to Germany, after having written off our family for protesting his practice of keeping my cousin perpetually pregnant. They had 17 children, ages 14 and lower. They were driving home from having the 17th baby on the Autobahn, when they hit ice and crashed with a semi truck. The truck driver’s wife was killed, my cousin was killed, and the baby had some minor injuries.

So there he was, with no wife and 17 children.

At her funeral, he asked people for help with the children. I vaguely remember this, because my aunt was yelling at him about how he was abusing my cousin’s body by turning it into a “perpetual baby factory.” She said that she’d never forgive him for that abuse, and to not ask for help again.

That was the last that we saw of him. I never got to meet any of my cousin’s children, so I didn’t feel any big loss in that regard.

This was my dad’s side of the family. They never seemed particularly religious, although they seemed to be accepting of most standard Christian faiths. But this situation was clearly abuse, so far as they were concerned. I agree whole-heartedly. Plus, it certainly can’t be healthy for anyone.