The opening article is another piece of rubbish. Children not forced to practice the religion?
How's this for an example. When I first joined the cancer, one week in April when school had let out for that week, I was out in field circus every afternoon as an unbaptized publisher. And, every day, there was one mother who had a 8 year old child out in field circus. This child had been out all morning by the time I showed up, and was often out until 4 or 5 in the evening that week. This child would "act up" often--playing with twigs and pebbles, skipping and running ahead of the group, and making noise. And, get spankings and threatened with worse when they got home. Is this not force?
I have also seen children that are in their teens getting coerced into baptism by parents. Usually, they are around 12 or so when this starts. It is rigged to make it look voluntary, but usually getting baptized is a condition before getting any privileges usually granted to children when they turn around 12. They don't have the option to miss the boasting sessions, either. And, if they get disfellowshipped before they turn 18, they get pushed right out of the home unprepared--and cut off from any further assistance once they do leave.
Anyone that believes that the witlesses are not forced in as children ought to have a word with Ja Rule--who I understand was disfellowshipped before age 18. They ought to discuss with that rapper how witlesses treat their children when they do not wish to continue in the cancer because it is wasting too much of their time, they are abused in it, or they see doctrinal issues (the "a generation") that are simply ignored and they still have to believe in and teach the bad doctrines.