My informal survey of the congregations I know shows that 8 out 10 leave by fading or are DF'd. Some try coming back when they have children but it usually doesn't stick.
Blondie
Are young JWs staying in or moving out of the borg?
by zagor 13 Replies latest jw friends
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DannyHaszard
I believe the next generation of Witnesses is being lost
and the exposure of this fact could devastate congregations.
My emperical observation 1957-1992 is a 50% fallout rate of young mostly teenagers.If you were an elder and had 4 kids two are in and two are out.
A popular phrase repeated often was:girls married at 16 boys at 18 "'or your outta da troof"
NOW its the information age and i have observed my mates 16 y.o. worldly daughter and how she lives on her PC and so does all her friends.
It must be the same with JW kids too?There is no way they are not going to view reams and data streams of the anti-witness pages out there.
They won't be blind to the porn pages either.
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sweet tee
It's been several years since I left the b0rg, but when I was in, the young people were having a lot more fun than they were supposed to . Those who married young were often mismatched and miserable (and it showed). Most either divorced or seperated then one or both wound up leaving. It's almost impossible to live down a bad reputation there ... may as well keep on moving and enjoy a normal life.
The internet is helping people to move on after they come out (like me )!
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lucky
I was actually discouraged when I received a picture and letter recently from a sister in a former congregation of mine. The picture showed all the smiling young people in the congregation after the memorial. All of the kids that were in the 5-15 age range when I lived there about 10 years ago are still in the org. (and they were all in the picture, so I don't think she's making it up), and according to the letter, most of them have become either auxiliary pioneers, regular pioneers, ministerial servants, or bethelites. Even the ones I thought would be out for sure because their parents weren't too strong are apparently doing great. It was pretty discouraging, but this is a small congregation in a very rural area, so maybe it is an anomoly.