Stand by Your Man

Children of the Underground

Children of the Underground is a five episode documentary series from FX on Faye Yager and the underground network she created to assist mothers of sexually abused children to relocate and to hide from their abusers. Yager was inspired to found the organization after losing custody of her daughter to her husband, pedophile Roger Lee Jones. Jones later became the first FBI most wanted fugitive to flee child molestation charges and was later captured at a campground.The series features Yager, her daughter, Gloria Steinem, Sally Jessy Raphael, and others. Episode one explains the historical context, the role of daytime television in lifting up the voices of women and the issues they faced, and introduces the network and its issues with law enforcement. Episode t… more »