The 20 Year Decline

"It's really hard to leave your total control group and your religion. It's been compared to death, essentially," he says. "So i just, for myself, needed like, i needed to be in so much trouble that i could actually say to my parents, like, i want to leave the family." After six years of 'trying to survive' by finding an older man who would take care of his children if they wanted to go their own way,  he decided to join the army.