Single women with 3 kids returning to the meetings....

EndofMysteries

I was talking with a still in relative today who mentioned how they had this sister with 3 or 4 kids over recently. They said she is returning ot meetings and coming back into the truth, etc.

I remember when I was still in, the ONLY ones I ever saw trying to return were generally the single moms with lots of baggage.

I wonder what their real motives are for returning. No 'worldly' guys are interested so looking for a good jw guy? Kids not behaving so wanting the religion to instill discipline? Do they actually believe it's the truth or are they just trying to take advantage of something?

MadGiant

Association and Community?

Apognophos

Fear of the world their kids are entering. Fear of raising their kids without any support.

losingit

Association, community, and I believe they might want to make things right with God by helping to raise their young ones.

snowbird

Love and acceptance and the hope of finding a good JW man to help her raise the kiddies.

Ignoranceisbliss

The mom was raised a jdub. Left but was still indoctrinated. Her life sucks now so she thinks it's because she left the org. She probably has no family support outside the org. The shunning policy is very successfull.

daringhart13

My mother became a JW (and raised me as one) due to this same dynamic. She was a single 22 year old woman with three kids.

They are terrified, young women with no support system.

This one story should convince an onlooker what a terrible cult JW's are...... this woman and her children will be virtually ignored.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

And they get lots of lovebombing at that early stage of the return.

Quarterback

If she has three children, she should watch out for those Dingos

sd-7

This makes me wonder if it's the reason my wife went back to the JWs. She didn't seem to have much interest in going back until she got pregnant by a guy who dumped her shortly thereafter when she wouldn't have an abortion. But as she tells it, JWs gave her stuff for the baby even while she was DF'd. So it was a support system, and no doubt once she got reinstated it made her more loyal than ever and more convinced than ever of JWs' being a loving, supportive people.

Now, years later, she's hard pressed to find someone willing to give her and the kids a ride 5 minutes down the road to the KH without them wanting gas money. It's a bit ironic. But yeah, the support system is a big factor there. The kids get what are imagined to be good male role models and all that.

It reminds me of a JW elder years ago who said to me, "You know, you're like a son to me." In my head I thought, that's funny, 'cause I've never thought of you as a father figure.

--sd-7

Single women with 3 kids returning to the meetings....

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