Dorothy Allred Solomon, a monogamist who is the 28th of the 48 children born to the late polygamist Mormon Rulon Allred, is the author of Predators, Prey and Other Kinfolk: Growing Up in Polygamy (W.W. Norton and Co., 2003).

She lives in the Salt Lake City area. She says that because of secrecy and isolation, as well as patriarchal tyranny, there is more of certain kinds of abuse - sexual, spiritual and mental - in the polygamous subculture, but drug abuse, physical abuse and crime are rare.

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