[8] Long-time leader John Ortell Kingston himself lived in a small dilapidated one-story clapboard house in Salt Lake City up until the time of his death in 1987.

[12] Over the past 25 years, many members have become college educated and live in middle, to upper-middle-class homes in their respective communities.

[3] Throughout the 1940s and 50s, the state carried out an extensive campaign of legislation, raids and arrests in an attempt to break up plural families.

[3][19] However, active members and recent independent research has more plausibly attributed the practice to "endogamous preference and the small size of the group’s population".

For decades, the Cooperative has publicly joined with many others in speaking out against child-bride marriages and the DCCS has a policy encouraging its members to marry within the legal age of consent.

[19] Kingston's sons comprise many of the members of the highest echelon of leadership within the cooperative as well as many of the plural families within the group.