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In Reply to: Re: and that is as it should be posted by Albatross on December 10, 2003 at 13:46:08:
FGAs were youth when they joined. And the family was not a sex-crazed org at that time and Maria was a secretary for Berg. This is as the family at least appeared to be upon joining for many fg. What kind of people do you thing FGAs were? I see us as having been lost children, median age early 20's with many who were teens, incl. minors. I see most of us as having been searching for a better way of life in the midst of a lot of social changes. What I found was something that had all the answers and was "positive". I could have just as easily found a pimp who showed me unconditional love and concern and then turned me out. But I didn't.
If you were going to use this reasoning about FGAs, then you could do the same with SGAs still in the family. Still following Zerby.
Why don't the minors run away? Why don't they leave since there is the internet now with all this information listing resources and offers of support?
I don't ask these questions literally, just to point out how your reasoning SEEMS to me.
By the way, very very few FGAs had a hand in creating family doctrines. That came straight from the top. I think it is healthy to blame Berg and Zerby and Peter A. They orchestrate and control things to the best of their respective manipulative ability. I also think it is right to blame those who perpetrated abuses directly. But blanket blame at FGAs is futile, imo. I hate what things youth suffered in the family. I hate what FGs suffered in the family. I won't deny either. I would have to say that there are SGs who do not see things this way because they never experienced it themselves, and what was experienced (as far as the horrors of separation from parents etc) was not done willingly by most parents. NEVERTHELESS, I personally have made amends to my kids for things occurring in the family. However, most things that were hard for them occurred OUTSIDE of the family. We have a good relationship. GREAT. I am sorry it is not so for more families that were ripped apart in this group.
