Just skip to the pink stripe unless you want the details.
I was baptized when pregnant with my sixth child and had one more afterward:
Husband never in. Of our children :
1. Quit studying in 11th grade. She graduated from college and is doing very well.
2. Baptised at 14 and had doubts spring up by the time she graduated. On her way to Alaska, via my sister in Washington, she went to a Tacoma, Wa convention. She called to tell me she didn't believe it any more. I never quit talking to her. She told me a year ago that she finally is able to pray again. Ahe hates, HATES, this religion. She was treated badly when she voiced her doubts to her favorite elder. She bounced around and eventually went to college and graduated. She is okay but I worry about her still.
3. My son studied for a year and quit.
4. This son never studied.
5. This son studied on and off finally got baptised at 21 and got DF'd for general hell-raising and drinking. Very up-front. Had some friends who were good to him and an elder who was truly like a father. No on talked to him after that. It really messed with him. The whole thing. In fact when I was going through my own year of decision he kind of was critical of some of my conclusions---like he really believed it was the "Truth" to him.
6.This son went to meetings with me for a while when my husband would allow it. But that was stopped when he was still little.
7. This girl stopped studying in the 10th grade and I would not force her to go to meetings. She was never baptised. She has a full scholarship to college.
Two were all the way in and now are all the way out. My youngest got way in but refused to be corraled.There was direct pressure from the elders to get a Bible study with someone other than myself. But she told them she didn't need more knowledge--she needed a relationship with God and knowledge wouldn't give it to her. She was strong.
Even though I hate that I exposed my kids to this destructive cult I did at least recognize how bizarre I is to cut them off if they were "out"-especially when the natural course of life has its own ways of limiting contact when someone is doing drugs, drinking a lot, stripping or just doing a lot of crazy living. You probably aren't seeing them much unless you are liking that too--which might be the bigger issue for a Christian. So I talked to mine.
My family had plenty of issues aside from the wounds caused by me being a Witness. But I still hate what it did to us.