Religious Child Maltreatment

Religious Child Maltreatment: Interview with Janet Heimlich

I found this podcast.

Thought I should share this. Can you relate?

Listening now....very interesting so far...good thread.

This is a long interview but worth listening to.

You can see the results on this very site by so many who post here, of their own intellectually abused childhoods,

Who, even in their "mock rebellion", they are still locked into the hierarchy of the "organization" (scary)

The "fear based" thinking, the isolation they have experienced the neglect of their education, the

lock-step mentality and low self esteem, or grandiosity ( Lars ) That has been their experience.

Growing up believeing they have "special knowledge" and that there is a "governing body" who controls

all "Truth". Even the "born-in" adults think there is two alternatives, the "truth" or no God at all.

The obvious abuse of children is the fact Jehavah's Wittnesses let then die by bleeding to death

when they could have saved them.

The idea your very life is less important than obedience to the ever

changing rules of the "faithful and discreet slave". Think of the children who died.

This knowledge is something even very young JW's understand. They are disposable children.