There were few textbooks in their house.Īs a teenager, Westover began to want to enter the larger world and attend college. But she never attended a lecture, wrote an essay, or took an exam. Westover has said an older brother taught her to read, and she studied the scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Even when seriously injured, the children were treated only by their mother, who had studied herbalism and other methods of alternative healing.Īll the siblings were loosely homeschooled by their mother. Their father resisted getting formal medical treatment for any of the family. She was not registered for a birth certificate until she was nine years old. Westover was born at home, delivered by a midwife, and was never taken to a doctor or nurse. Her parents were suspicious of doctors, hospitals, public schools, and the federal government. She has five older brothers and an older sister. Westover was the youngest of seven children born in Clifton, Idaho (population 259) to Mormon survivalist parents.
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