Seventeen Sisters: Tell Their Story

We've watched interesting plural marriages in TV documentaries, read about them in books, and even seen them featured in an HBO series. We've heard daunting stories about young women forced into marrying older men and the admirable journey to escape their way out of the polygamous life they were taught they belonged. We've seen a large family grow on a TLC show, documenting the Mormon religion and discipline from a positive perspective.

Today, the Mormon and polygamous culture has shown itself into the limelight more than ever before. This series of seventeen stories focuses on the Barlow family, a family that epitomized the Mormon, polygamous lifestyle. It was led by Albert Barlow, a father of thirty-four children and a husband to three women for over fifty years. The seventeen living daughters of Albert's family here to tell their story. They have seen it all, they have experienced it all.

Here we can observe how one lifestyle can branch out to seventeen different perspectives, seventeen different dreams, and seventeen different outcomes.

• My Life as a Sister Wife: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
• "It's Not About the Sex" My Ass: Confessions of an Ex-Mormon Ex-Polygamist Ex-Wife
• The Family
• Worthy: A Young Woman from a Background of Poverty and Abuse Falls Prey to a Polygamous Cult
• Call Me Evil, Let Me Go: A mother's struggle to save her children from a brutal religious cult
• Cult Child
• Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs
• The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice
• Plural Bride to Be
• Born into the Children of God: My life in a religious sex cult and my struggle for survival on the outside