Of course it's wrong...
Nancy Grace was (over)emoting, as usual, on the topic of the polygamist sect in Texas. When she worked herself into near apoplexy about children being born to girls under 18 something sounded misplaced. I'm not speaking to defend the polygamists. But what is it that people find more offensive? Is it the abuse and early motherhood? Or the fact that it takes place within the confines of sham marriage?

One of the most despair inspiring days I had as a La Leche League Leader was when I gave a 'mothering' talk to the expectant teens group at a local high school. (Not Lake Forest, of course. Never in Lake Forest. These things are handled with discreet dispatch in this perfect corner of the world.)

I based my talk on the assumption that these were bewildered girls bravely facing their first pregnancy. There was a lot of bravado. Starting with the girl who pulled a Tootsie Roll pop out of her pocket and asked if I was going to talk about nutrition.
(Clearly not a tofu-spice cookie crowd.) But I didn't feel like I had been punched in the gut until one of the girls told me the baby she was expecting was her third. Clearly the polygamists are not the only under-age girls giving birth. Come to think of it, since that talk was before Eddie was born in '93, I would have to figure that some of those girls may well be grandmothers now.

So where is the outrage? The concerted government effort to separate mothers and children? (I'm not saying there should be, but what makes the Yearning for Zion children different from the thousands of other children born into unfathomable family situations?) The legal initiatives and use of the definitive word wrong?

Absurd polygamous 'marriage' is wrong. And so is the "no marriage," with families formed by school girls who are the victims of free-lance inseminators.