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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think being as Mormon is logistically difficult, especially in a large city. You are supposed to marry young and have lots of kids, but if you have lots of kids, you need a good income, so you need college and grad school, but it's hard to do that if you marry young and have lots of kids. If you are a woman, you are supposed to get a college degree that you never use, as you can't work with eight kids. In addition to all of these work and family responsibilities, you are supposed to go to church, be a home teacher, lead a scout troop, and take a turn leading your church. [b]You do all of this while tithing and saving for your sons' missions (at 20 k apiece), in addition to saving for college and retirement.
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They set standards that few can meet.[/quote]

How do they do all these things, esp the stuff in the bold?  It seems that Mormon parents and the older generation helps out the younger generation financially, but I can't imagine that all of them have enough family wealth to make this happen.  [/quote]

It's an impossible standard to uphold and it killed a female relative of mine.  She was a convert.  She already had a MBA from Stanford and married in to a Mormon side of my family.  We became close.  She had converted because of a difficult childhood, but the LDS church didn't turn out to be the safe haven she wanted.  Everything about the LDS church posted in this column is true.  She was held to impossible standards and I witnessed what it did to her for 15 years and how it ground her down.  She had four children in short order and if a fifth came along, she had no say over the matter.  She tilled the backyard and grew vegetables and canned in the fall.  She had the year's requirement of food in storage and was rotating the dry goods.  She was "called" to be the boy scout leader for her ward.  She was "called" to teach Sunday school. She was called to run "Pioneer Day".  She and her husband regularly tithed as is required (you meet quarterly with the Ward Bishop and he knows exactly what you make - you turn over 10% of gross).  She was saving for the missions for her three boys - HER obligation upon birth of the son.  And they bought a house.  DH lost his job in the recession so had to take a job with a 2 hour commute at lesser pay.  My cousin had no choice but to find work on top of everything else she was doing (and she had two SN kids).  Her MBA from Stanford wasn't recognized for teaching in state schools so she was teaching full time while also going to school at night to get her teaching certificate.  And DH expected to also put a meal on the table for the five of them before heading out to class.  We talked extensively the week before she died about the stress she was under, the anger she held because she couldn't "do it all", and asked for prayers.  While setting up her classroom for the fall she suffered sudden cardiac arrest and was probably dead before she hit the floor.  The hospital kept her "alive" for a week, but it was hopeless.  She was 43.[/quote]

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