 Turner states that around the age of thirteen and fourteen, girls were often chosen for "marriage" by one of the adult men of the family.She witnessed a friend crying after being "chosen" for Lyman, saying "that she didn’t want to have sex with Lyman but knew that soon she would have to".Turner also states that the group believed "the world would end on January 5, 1974" and that Family members should prepare to be taken to Venus via UFO