Last night was the second to last episode of Sister Wives this season. (It was technically the finale, but there’s a “bonus” episode coming up in two weeks.) Patriarch Kody Brown had to break the news to his hoard of very sweet innocent kids that their family was moving to Las Vegas – in three days! They told the oldest five kids a couple of weeks ahead of time, but made the very stupid decision not to tell the rest of their kids (the other 11, there are 16 in total), they were moving until the very last minute. The deadline was due to the timing of when their school semester ended and when the new one started in Nevada. The reason they were moving so suddently is because they were facing an investigation by local authorities for felony bigamy. Kody told his kids that their family might get split up if they didn’t leave Utah immediately. That investigation has not gone anywhere and Kody has not been charged with anything. Cohabitation with multiple partners in Nevada is not a crime.
So Kody made the decision to break the news to all the younger kids at once and most of them started bawling when they realized that they were leaving all their friends and their school behind. Then Kody is all “here’s the hard part, you can’t tell anyone else.” Are you kidding me? The kids can’t tell their best friends or their teachers that they’re going to leave forever in three days? That bothered me so much. What’s more is it was Kody’s stupid idea. I guess he thought that the kids might jeopardize the pending investigation and that the authorities would get tipped off that his family was skipping town. All he was doing was making an incredibly difficult situation even worse for his children and denying them the chance to say goodbye to their friends.
When the older kids asked Kody what would happen with Mariah, his 14 year-old daughter with Meri who refused to leave the Mormon private school and found public school in Utah too difficult to handle, he was not sympathetic. Kody got stubborn and rude and made a lot of proclamations about how God gave him the power to make this decision.
“I need you to remember a very important mantra. ‘Where we go one, we go all.’ When you guys are 18 and graduated you can make your own choices, but in this case we go as a family.”
Mariah had a whole list of reasons she should stay, most importantly that she should finish out her school year, but Kody shot them all down, narrating later while he was smiling that these things were “valid to a teenager” and “I have to say, the one thing which is the main thing is that we keep the family together, and that had to trump all of it.”
Kody said “I feel like God has given me a responsibility to keep you under my house, so I feel like you should be with us in our home at least til you’re 18 and graduated if not beyond that ’til you’re married. That’s my belief and because it’s my responsibility to answer to God for it, I feel like that I should have you come with me. My job as given by God when you were born was to take care of you in my realm and have you in my home until you’re married.”
Then Kody narrated later that it was “very easy to be empathetic to her because I got it” and that it was easy to say “sweetheart come along, please, please come with us.” Excuse me, he got it? He told her it was his way or the highway and that he had divine power. He didn’t say please one time that I heard.
So GOD told Kody to jerk his kids around, bring them to Vegas with three days notice and not even let them say goodbye to their friends. He gets to have four wives and move his family around wherever he wants because God gave him the authori-tay.
I get that Kody and the wives felt pressured to get out of town before the investigation, and that they were under a lot of stress. I think they acted out of fear, though, and that they should have stayed and waited to see how things turned out rather than running out of town. I doubt that their family would have been broken up and I doubt that Kody would have been successfully prosecuted.
Here’s a video that was not shown on last night’s show where they admit that the police said that the children would not be questioned and that the investigation was complete. I just don’t get why they moved so suddenly except to appease Kody.
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