Talk:Lost boys (Mormon fundamentalism)

Offensive-Please Change

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I am an adolescent LDS guy, and some of the wording of this article offends me personally. I think that it needs to be made much clearer that this is the FLDS church, as the original LDS church has abandoned polygamy well over a century ago and is often persecuted based on strange lies inspired by these kinds of mistakes. Please 1: change the title to remove the offensive generalization between the two entirely unrelated churches, and 2: correct the wording to specify. I would make these changes myself, but I am relatively unskilled with editing Wikipedia any more than such as this. Thank you 75.15.132.119 (talk) 05:39, 24 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

Did adding the Mormonism and polygamy sidebar help resolve this issue for you? I'm not sure what more could be done, given that it says right in the first paragraph that this has to do with the FLDS church. -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 23:27, 3 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
While people such as "adolescent LDS guy" claim to be separate from FLDS Church, you are both part of Mormonism. I believe the wording in this article to be supporting LDS instead of being impartial. In Correct (talk) 17:09, 5 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Should This Page Be Merged With the "Mormonism and polygamy" Page?

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I read the Mormonism and polygamy page looking for a reference to the lost boys, but there was not one. This page is so short, perhaps it's content should just be made a paragraph on the other page. Or at least that page should link to this one. I realize that the practice is now mainly confined to fundamentalist splinter groups, but their history is common so the topics are related. 72.182.15.37 (talk) 04:41, 10 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

If anything, this article would be more appropriate to merge to Mormon fundamentalism, but given the length of that article, the merge would seem to to counter-productive. -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 16:35, 8 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

Who uses the term?

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The opening says that "lost boys" is a term "used" for these excommunicated young men. Used by whom? Is the term used by the exiles themselves, or the communities that exile them, or outside observers, or all three? SpectrumDT (talk) 11:08, 4 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

My understanding was that the term was first used by the social service workers and others providing them aid, then it was picked up by the media, and then some of the young men that the term described began to self-identify this way. As far as I know it is not a term used by the FLDS community. Unfortunately I cannot provide any refs for these statements, so this material should not be included in the article based on this reply. Asterisk*Splat 22:57, 4 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
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