FLDS Reading

I've been keeping up with the FLDS case by reading the CommonRoom blog, which is focused on the state's lack of hard evidence to justify their actions is removing children from their home, and how this could set precedents that we have reason to be wary of.

I've also been reading accounts of former members' claims of abuse within the group that would warrant removal of children - claims about what amounts to water torture on infants to teach them not to cry, brainwashing of women to the extent that mothers don't protect their own daughters from forced marriages to older men and women accept a life of enslavement, and abandoning young men who have been raised to fear and distrust "the world" by thrusting them out into that world in order to decrease competition for brides.

This case is a real mess, no matter how you look at it. I've heard of a few women who have escaped the group and told tragic stories about life within the compound, but no accounts from any of the young men who were forced out and had to learn to make their way in the outside world. If that's true, and such men do exist, I wonder what their thoughts are about all of this? Where are they now, what have they done to survive? Have they kept their beliefs and tried to be absorbed into similar groups (or perhaps more mainstream LDS churches?), or do most of them reject God altogether? And, if the stories are true about how children are raised to expect men to dominate women, and women to submissively accept that lifestyle, how do these men fare in marriages out in the real world?