Posted by:
utahmonomore
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Date: December 12, 2013 08:49PM
You also need to feature a "white trash Mormon household". Those are the families that have so many kids and the parents have to rely on church welfare to even feed em. The mindset of the "WT" household is that they feel like they are royalty of some sort because they give all their money to the church so they have a hard time providing the basics to their families. They have all those kids that they cannot afford because they are led to believe that they need to bring as many spirit children to the earth as possible. They are also like preppers in a way, but, their food storage is usually stacked along all the inside walls of their homes and their homes usually border on a potential 'Hoarders' episode. These homes are way too small for the amount of kids they have, and sometimes, they will use a bare basement, and section it off and put 2 beds and a dresser in each cubicle forcing two children to swap clothing all the time...whatever fits. They do have nice church clothes though, but their day to day clothes are usually icky. The homes are also very bare and very dirty. I have been in many of these types of homes over the years, and they are literally falling apart, no sheets on beds, 3 foot high piles of laundry all over the place, filthy and dirty too, but, in every room, there are pics of the temples, or prophets usually held on the wall with a tack swinging sideways on the wall. Their yards look like hell also.
There was a news article and TV episode a while back about a WT Mormon family in SLC that had 6 autistic kids,and the house was horrific..it even showed these kids ripping off the drywall coverings, no bedsheets cause they constantly trashed their rooms, so the parents basically gave up. Yes, these kids were biologically the parents, and not adopted. The woman ended up having a nervous breakdown, because her husband convinced her that the 'next baby' would be 'normal', unfortunately, the same diagnosis happened with each kid. The doctors even told her to NOT get pregnant because she would have problems as would the kids, but she was so pressured into being the perfect Mormon family that she got pregnant again and again to no avail. The perfect Mormon family does NOT exist. That is why the anti depressant use is so high there. They are pressured into having all these kids and held to an unrealistic goal of being happy and perfect. When that goal is not attained, the wife is led to believe that she is not 'worthy' or it is somehow her fault for sinning in some way. Then, it ends up being a revolving door. I do not know of any family that is perfect, be it LDS or not. What is really sad is that it is the kids that suffer because of the religious views of the parents.
This may be offensive to some, and I do not mean for it to be, but its time that we take a good look behind the door, and not feature a 'sister wives' episode where everything is spotless inside that home. We need to show a different 'spin' on the other side of the squeaky clean image as well.