What percentage of young ones are leaving the JW's???

by karter 30 Replies latest jw experiences

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  LostGeneration

  From the horse's mouth, or a$$ depending on your perspective, a DO a few years back said the number is 70%.

  Now how they calculate that is another matter. Do they count every kid that is an UBP? Just those that get dunked then leave? Whatever the method, too many are leaving and the GB recognized their little cult will die a long slow death if they can't turn this around.

  So they are trying to get kids dunked earlier, keep them away from college, and off of the internet. (Good luck with that GB)

  When they start encouraging JWs to have kids, we will know they are really desperate.
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  flipper

  KARTER- Good thread. In my JW family of my children, nieces & nephews aged 22 - 37 , 4 out of 8 no longer attend. So 50 %. But only 1 out of my own 3 children no longer attend. I did too good of a job when I was a JW . I have hope for my older daughter someday.

  The Internet and age of information access is really hurting the WT society's ability to keep people under control. Good news. Really good news
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  J. Hofer

  i once heard an CO talk about some 60-70%. in my family it's almost 85%.
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  outlawwilly

  Well not to long ago my sister and brother were out. My other sister was in but wavering. Now all 3 of them have gotten scared back in by my parents, from what I can gather. So much so, my 2 sisters are pioneers and my brother in law (who was a pot smoking skateboarding wordly guy when him and my sister met) is now a ministerial servant. They are all 30 or under when they went back.
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  JonathanH

  The actual figure from a pew study was I think around 60%. Two out of three witness kids grow up and leave the religion.

  Actually here is something.
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  palmtree67

  Neither of my children are in.

  Son, baptised - moved away and faded.....

  Daughter, unbaptised - simply quit going.
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  the_raisin

  Well, thankfully my siblings are not JWs anymore. They are thinking for themselves again!!! And I do know a lot of younguns who left the Org (funny thing is, before I left I made friends with younger kids. Those same kids, who at one point would tell me of the dreams to go to Bethel and become Elders and what not... well, they are rockers with actual bands who make good music/ going to college and no longer attending meetings/ seem pretty well-adjusted and nice kids who deny ignorance... and a couple potheads, but that wasn't my doing!). SO form my experience, quite a chunk have opened their eyes. Which happys me.
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  DesirousOfChange

  In our area, it was not the youth leaving, it was the mid-lifers. Tired. Burned out. Disillusioned.
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  redsoxfan1393

  I can't wait to be one of those who left in the next few months hopefully!

  It just sucks to be a kid in this group! You are never allowed to have fun! Can't be with the people you really like from school, can't date, can't do anything!!!!!
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  amadisimon

  i was born a jw, till now I'm still strong in my faith,

  happily we are 10 children mom and dad make it 12 now we have 3 elders

  and all my family are still saving Jehovah happily.

  believe it or not the joy you find in serving Jehovah is something you cant find anywhere ears .

  no one is deprive or deprived not to have friends or be like a young boy or girl

  if you follow bible principal you will kn that everything writhing there is for our benefit,

  such as respect your father and mother it benefit you if you follow that instruction so also

  if you respect your creator it benefit you not your God,

  though it makes your God Jehovah happy to see you are a good child.

  jw or not i never see any man who tell his kids to keep following bad gangs or bad friends.

  for me though I'm not the most obedient son ,when i was young i use to ask why is my father so careful about were we go and who we make friends with,

  but happily i was wise enough to read my bible personal and see that bad association spoil a useful rabid.my advice for children is keep studding the bible to see why your parent ask you to chose your friends wisely.