Texas Officials Try to Sort out Relationships

Armed with cotton swabs and cameras, lab technicians began taking DNA samples from hundreds of children and mothers. They are hoping to sort out the tangled family relationships within the West Texas polygamist sect.A judge ordered that the genetic material be taken to help determine which children belong to which parents. That seems reasonable to me. Before they begin custody hearings to determine which children may have been abused, they need to figure that out. Those children who have been abused need to be removed from the sect compound in Eldorado. Then they will be able to tell which ones can safely be returned to their parents. It is confusing because the children call all their father's wives "mother" and all men in their families as "uncles". Why don't they call some of the men "father". Strange, huh?