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..., [[2005]] by [[The Family|The Family's]] PR [[Family Board|Board]] to all Family [[Homes]] in [[Japan]], regarding media interest in the [[cult]] in Japan. ==Reaction to the leaks by The Family's PR Board==

...the Adult Children of First-Generation Members of the Children of God/The Family== ''Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada''

...the few times I've called, as well as to your kids. You've got a wonderful family. I hope things are continuing to improve in your new business. ==LIFE AFTER THE FAMILY: A Progress Report==

=No Regrets - Why I left The Family= ...ago, when I resigned from World Services (WS) and the Charter Member (CM) Family. I've added some facts, figures, substantiations, and explanations, which I

...ICULAR THE ANONYMITY OF THE CHILD, A WARD OF COURT, AND THE MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY MUST BE STRICTLY PRESERVED. FAMILY DIVISION

...ern California, show deep, ongoing ties between the organization and [[the Family]], the evangelical sex cult rocked by a recent murder-suicide. But officials with the Family Care Foundation deny any connection to the controversial cult.

[[Ricky Rodriguez | Richard P. Rodriguez]], 29, told family members he killed his former nanny, [[Angela Smith | Angela M. Smith]], 51, ...But Rodriguez lived all over the world with a religious sect called [[The Family]], and it wasn't known Tuesday whether the alleged abuse was ever reported

Dear Family, ...their target is particularly you young people and those who are new to the Family. That ought to really piss you off! Excuse the language--and I don’t reco

...maintains strict control over COG members, not only through his immediate family but, by means of his writings known as "Moses Letters". These are divided ...local communes who, in turn, purportedly transfer the same to Berg and his family, attempts inquire into the finances of the main organization were met with

{{Disclaimer-family}} ...ll. We're also including the prelude to your letter, where you address all Family teens and adults.

...me of the most blatant sexualization of children occurred when Faith was a Family leader in [[Greece]] with the “[[Music with Meaning]]” ministry during ...!" <small>(ML 394)</small>, which has since been ordered [[purge]]d by The Family.''</div>

{{disclaimer-family}} ==OUR side: In Defense of our Faith, Family, and Lifestyle, Part 1==

{{disclaimer-family}} ==OUR side: In Defense of our Faith, Family, and Lifestyle, Part 2==

==[[Family Care Foundation|FAMILY CARE FOUNDATION]]<br>A FRONT GROUP FOR THE FAMILY CULT== [[The Family]] aka the [[Children of God]] (COG) have shocked the world with their pract

...ll> &ndash; 1987-11-16</ref> After her father completed his education, her family, including her three older siblings, moved to South Dakota, the home state ...nd [[Spain]].<ref name="vls-saffidavit19871116" /> In 1984, the Shillander family moved to [[Thailand]].<ref name="vls-saffidavit19871116" />

**Family Education Department (FED Board) * [https://media.xfamily.org/docs/fam/misc/fbh.pdf The Family Board Handbook] <small>(PDF; 230KB)</small>

...nd precarious path of movie stardom. As an adolescent, he would become the family breadwinner, playing out his scrambled childhood in make-believe, big scree Before long, the new family headed to Colorado and in [[1972]] became members of an evangelical cult, t

...ous cults of the past forty years, the Children of God, known today as the Family International. For decades, the group has operated in the shadows around th ...appointed role as savior, the young man who was prophesied to deliver the Family and its members "out of great sorrow and bondage." In [[Story of Davidito|T

{{disclaimer-family}} ...D]</font></small>" throughout the text. Please see [[The Charter]] for The Family International's current policy and rules regarding sex and marriage.'')

==Keeping it in the Family== ...d such a strong case for protective orders against the religious group the Family why did the case settle out of court? Alex Messina reports.'''

==Family's leader sends top aide to secret talks== ...right-hand man to the world leader of the religious group [[The Family|the Family]] has visited [[Australia]] secretly twice in the past 18 months - unbeknow

==Meet The Family== ...he works between five orphanages ensuring the children have food, shelter, education and the knowledge that someone has love for them. "I believe what the Bible

...rostitution from the near North Side. He sued the city to force the police department to cooperate in that strategy in a case that's still pending. "No one in the family, including her, will deny there was some abuse," Lewis said. "I didn't know

...standard procedure), and for requiring converts to "forsake all" (parents, education, jobs, churches) and to tunr over all their posssesions to the organization ...duled to be published this summer by Acton House. He is a professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsyl

...enia in [[1969]], and since then has published on undergraduate psychology education and religious coping. ...Family]]-funded psychological evaluation of 52 children living in [[U.S.]] Family [[home]]s, together with colleague [[Gary Shepard]] (a professor of sociolo

...ives in the year-long undercover inquiry into the sect, now known as [[The Family]]. ...nd Yard Commissioner Paul Condon by detectives of the obscene publications department, part of the international and organised crime branch.

...Monica Junior College, after being raised in a religious group called the Family. ''(Bonnie Azab Powell photos)'']] ===Born into 'the Family,' transfer student Daniel Roselle hopes to find a new community at UC Berke

...history of controversy at its branch in Macau, where it is known as "[[The Family]]". ...f God]], son of its founder and now "[[shepherd]]" to a sect known as "The Family", shrugs off allegations of mixing child sex and religion, claiming it is j

==The Family Cult Escapees== ...on]] [https://media.xfamily.org/video/tv/dr_phil_100305.wmv Dr. Phil: The Family Cult Escapees] &mdash; (36:59, 93.8MB)

...ekend at the Bahia each summer had come to be a special time for me and my family. ...around half past midnight, extremely worried by then, I called the police department.

{{disclaimer-family}} <br> <u>17. WE WHO HAVE FORSAKEN ALL & THE SYSTEM & SYSTEM JOBS & EDUCATION & ALL THE REST ARE DEVOTING OUR FULL TIME, 100% TO SERVING THE LORD!</u> Ev

{{disclaimer-family}} GBY! From re-reading different [[The Family|Family]] accounts of [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]] & [[deprogramming]]

==The Family's Response to the Canadian documentary, The Love Prophet and the Children o ...eptable year of the Lord." [Luke chapter 4 verses 18 and 19]. To this end, Family members make considerable sacrifices of their time, finances and energy.)

...] guilt or innocence in matters of abuses in [[The Children of God]]/[[The Family]] come into discussion. ...without Zerby, there would have been no "Children of God". [[FGA]]s in the Family use this argument to defend her, as if because of her loyalty to Berg, she

...ay for 66 children seized from their parents on Friday to be placed in the department's care. The department's Deputy Director General, Mr David Marchant, said six of the 72 children o

The children of the religious sect [[The Family]] claim Department of Community Services officers are using weekly supervisory visits to spy o The department says children need State care. Despite proffering no specific evidence in c

==Keeping it in the Family== Eleven years after police raided the Family's premises and seized its children, members of the sect are inching towards

{{disclaimer-family}} ...t makes me furious! ''A revolutionary education today would be back-to-God education...back to a plan in History!''

{{disclaimer-family}} <br><br>       (c) By The Family of Love, March, 1978, C.P. 748,00100 Rome, Italia.

{{disclaimer-family}} <br><br>       20. ''<u>HE WAS VERY SIMPLE</u>''. He hadn't had much education at all, & he butchered the king's English! He was just a simple little hill

{{disclaimer-family}} <br>--A warning about our former Editor before he left the Family & his wife--kidnapping their three children!--By Father David.

{{disclaimer-family}} ...DRIVE</u> across from the Episcopal Church clear downtown where John Marsh Department Store now stands. I remember I used to go fishing on a little pier near the

{{disclaimer-family}} ...      22. <u>GOD INVESTED AN AWFUL LOT IN US IN TIME & TALENT</u> & education & knowledge of His Word & experience, & we were undoubtedly 50 years ahead

{{disclaimer-family}} ...e Lord, & the children are having more fun than ever & getting a whole new education in a new land with new people!

{{disclaimer-family}} ...</u>'' handed down for centuries. But now, although Egypt has had the most education, wealth and power for years, and has been considered the highest of the Ara

{{disclaimer-family}} ...why the Lord has sent us, of all people, the most important people in the Family, to this area of all places, & told us, when I was all prepared & had bough

{{disclaimer-family}} <br><br>       6. ''<u>I REMEMBER I WAS IN A DOWNTOWN DEPARTMENT STORE</u>'', & I had on a big heavy overcoat & a fur around my neck besides

{{disclaimer-family}} ...m the Episcopalian Cathedral & the Miami Public Library where Jordan Marsh Department Store now stands. Loved to fish from the pier jutting out into Biscayne Bay

{{disclaimer-family}} ''<u>DATALOG</u>!--Family History Chart in a Nutshell!       ''DFO 1355       1/83

{{disclaimer-family}} ...n't come to school for one week while I was earning a living to support my family by delivering telephone books! (Maria: That sure wasn't very nice!) I think

{{disclaimer-family}} ...on the floor--& one night she tried to play hookie! All the members of the Family were supposed to at least attend the nightly teaching session for all the b

{{disclaimer-family}} ''<u>WHAT IS THE "BOOK OF LIFE"?</u>''<u>--A Question from Our Education Department!</u>       DFO 1556       June 1983

{{disclaimer-family}} ...personal attention that these Clubbers need to really bring them into the Family.

{{disclaimer-family}} ..., so-called "music" that is popular with today's youth!--Or ask the Police Department of any large metropolitan area which age-group is having the largest upsurg

{{disclaimer-family}} ...one knows for sure--it was because he was trying to <u>save</u> the Royal Family & at least the Russian Christian Orthodox regime as opposed to the Marxist

{{disclaimer-family}} ...simply felt it was fitting tonight. We don't have many ceremonies in this Family, we don't celebrate many feast days, we don't put much stock in form & cere

{{disclaimer-family}} ...periment with a little Study Hall for a change. Did you have a good time? (Family: Yes!) Very good. There's no use my sitting here while you have to do all t

{{disclaimer-family}} ...       <u>17. WE WHO HAVE FORSAKEN ALL & THE SYSTEM & SYSTEM JOBS & EDUCATION & ALL THE REST ARE DEVOTING OUR FULL TIME, 100% TO SERVING THE LORD!</u> Ev

{{disclaimer-family}} ...th grades, & I had to teach them every subject! So that was a well-rounded education for me as well as them!--Ha! I think I got more out of it than they did!

{{disclaimer-family}} ...learning all about the marvels of Heavenly Thought Power & Communications, Education & now Transportation, as Abner is preparing me now for my first trip back t

{{disclaimer-family}} ...mily we don't have to leave parents, at least not our good parents who are Family members. But anyhow, I'll tell you the end of the story!

{{disclaimer-family}} <br>       <u>7. This shows that Jesus had a fairly good education, because you recall on one instance that He stood up in the synagogue & rea

{{disclaimer-family}} ...years, & these materials enabled me to gain an unequalled insight into the Family among outsiders.

{{disclaimer-family}} ...;EDITED: "<u>HomeARC note (6/98)</u>: The Charter is the current source of Family policy and rules regarding sex and marriage."]''

{{disclaimer-family}} ...nt for years & his father & grandfather before him & all of his brothers & family, so he had real experience. At least one thing about it, Gorbachev can prob

{{disclaimer-family}} ''<u>THE STATE OF THE WORLD/STATE OF THE FAMILY</u>!''       DO 2530       7/89

{{disclaimer-family}} ...everything and you don't even have to <u>work</u> for it! You can get free education, free this, free that."--All these benefits that make'm want to <u>keep</u>

{{disclaimer-family}} ...of land to grow a garden on! It's outrageous! I'm <u>against</u> the Royal Family of England! It costs <u>millions</u> of Pounds to support them, & there are

{{disclaimer-family}} ...like the churches." I know I'm the guy that more or less <u>taught</u> the Family that way, but then they always go to the extreme!

{{disclaimer-family}} <br>       <u>70. (To the Family:) God bless you all! I love you!--And Jesus loves you most of all</u>! He'l

{{disclaimer-family}} ...contrary to the Bible, that the women should be superior</u>. Every Jewish family is a matriarchy; the woman's the boss, & that even happens in politics.

{{disclaimer-family}} ...at the University of Notre Dame. Gary Bauer, director of the conservative Family Research Council, said he doubted many evangelicals would be swayed, if onl

{{disclaimer-family}} <br><br>       ''<u>Our Willing-Spirited Family!</u>''

{{disclaimer-family}} ...rtable chairs around Dad's coffin, where his body is lying peacefully. The Family is happily sharing thoughts and testimonies of Dad, his Homegoing and thing

{{disclaimer-family}} ...'1.'' <u>ALL OF US have been wrestling with the question of our children's education</u>. There's so much to teach them, but so little time to do it. We have su

{{disclaimer-family}} ...of the older generation who do as well</u>. Personally, I like all of our Family music. I like a variety of musical styles--country and western, Gospel, fol

{{disclaimer-family}} <br><br>Dearest Family,

{{disclaimer-family}} <br>--What to Do About the Problems of the Family!--By Maria

{{disclaimer-family}} ...them to "time bombs!" This should be another big encouragement to all our Family young people to hang on, and to realize what the Lord is going to do with t

{{disclaimer-family}} ...ey all look on the outward appearance to form their opinions of us and the Family.

{{disclaimer-family}} <br>       Family Web Sites!       5

{{disclaimer-family}} <br><br>Dear Family,

{{disclaimer-family}} <br><br>Dear Family,

{{disclaimer-family}} <br><br>Dear Family,

{{disclaimer-family}} <br><br>Dear Family,

{{disclaimer-family}} ...cholastic record, had been refused entry there, and was having to seek his education abroad. He also confirmed what we'd heard on the radio that very morning, t

{{disclaimer-family}} ...ifully mimeographed personal prayer letters, in the early days of our tiny family's ministry, "Form letters are a disease: Nina (my own mother) caught it fro

{{disclaimer-family}} <br><br>''THE USEFULNESS OF SOME EDUCATION''

{{disclaimer-family}} ...System! From all the school reports I've heard, we have the most wonderful education in the world--the Lord's kind, and Hannah tells me, if she can have 'em fro

{{disclaimer-family}} ...T 12, on the shores of this Continent about 20 years ago, consisting of my family of 6 and about half dozen students, we met with the very same problems on t

{{disclaimer-family}} ...s under System Government. We don't have to run the water department, fire department, etc.--We just ''use it''! In a way, we don't even have to replace ''the ec

{{disclaimer-family}} ...he fields, while they became more and more interested in higher and higher education and more and more buildings and fancier programs at home, until, when last

{{disclaimer-family}} ''"MO'S WORLDWIDE FAMILY-- LETTER'S NO. 10, 11 & 12"--''MO September 1974 DFO No.312b

{{disclaimer-family}} "''FAMILY NEWS!"''—MO November 13, 1974 NO.318C—DO

{{disclaimer-family}} ...literature, manpower, etc., and these necessitates are shared by ''larger family'' units rather than in selfish ''individual'' living.

{{disclaimer-family}} ...iles away! I hope you got that point, as this most certainly includes your Department as well!

{{disclaimer-family}} ...FIRST GRADUAL INFILTRATION ''and taking over of our ''thoughts'' and our ''education'', and even into some of our ''churches''. These principles which they taug

{{disclaimer-family}} ...cooked cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts and any of those in the cabbage family. When they are cooked they are like eating dynamite because apparently they

{{disclaimer-family}} ...By the Author of "Letter to a Loved One," A Concerned Child of God, to Her Family in the U.S.:

{{disclaimer-family}} ...E LONG WINDED</u>''! It's terrible to be so wordy! But that's what "higher education" does for you! It just nearly ruins you! Whereas <u>children</u> can speak

...f him. <br /><br />'''Narrator: ''' Rick was 19 when he met Elixcia at the Family commune in [[Hungary]]. ...the early 1980s but deny that paedophilia was ever institutionalized. The Family say in 1986 Rick's mother, Karen Zerby, was responsible for introducing str

The '''International Boards''' is an administrative structure of [[The Family International]] implemented in January of [[2002]].<ref>{{pubs|3438|2003, H ===Family Education Department Board (FED)===

...ook and today's event, which begins at 5 p.m., detail the history of The [[Family International]], also known as The [[Children of God]]. Rodriguez was one of 13,000 children born into The Family between [[1971]] and [[2001]].

The [[Children of God]] [now called The Family] emerged as an apocalyptic new religious movement in the late 1960s. By the ...hin the group. (For a review of recent research on the COG [now called The Family] and the ongoing debates found therein, see Raine [2006].) Regardless of th

{{disclaimer-family}} *[https://media.xfamily.org/docs/fam/ml/ml-3671.pdf The Family’s History, Policies, and Beliefs Regarding Sex - Part 1] <small>(28 pages

...psext8.dos.state.ny.us/corp_public/corpsearch.entity_search_entry New York Department of State Corporation and Business Entity Database] &mdash; accessed 2008-

The Children of God, or [[the Family]] as they now prefer to be known - and not to be confused with Anne Hamilto ...e sect - in relation to discipline, isolation, disrupted family ties, poor education and exposure to adult sexual activity - but attempts to discuss these conce