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  Do you think a JW childhood is abusive?

  by Konrad West in

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  i had a long discussion the other day with my new flatmate, who it turns out has studied with jws and thinks they're wonderful, about my view that being raised a jw is psychologically abusive.

  being indoctrinated with the concept of jehovah killing people who don't do what he says and being scared of losing your friends and family if disobedient is, in my view, a very unhealthy thing for a child.

  any thoughts?

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  neonskimmer

  i think that for a large proportion of families it is
  
  my own childhood was difficult for a number of reasons and growing up a jw was one of them.
  
  i think the most common abuses are psychological, although now that i think about it the attitude that a lot of jw's have towards physical punishment (especially at the KH, for crissakes) is disgusting. i can still recall the sound of 'rebellious' kids receiving discipline because they couldn't sit still for 2 hours. not one of my favorite memories.