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In Reply to: looking for unpurged copy of ML 2496 posted by Peter Frouman on January 05, 2006 at 23:15:19:
The following child custody and abduction related publications are now available online. Eventually these will all be converted to text and indexed on xFamily.org. In the meantime, for those who are interested here are links to the PDF files. Thanks to "ML Man" for providing the scans.
Note the PDF files have OCR generated text (which can be copied in Adobe Acrobat Reader) but it is uncorrected so there are numerous errors.
It is interesting to note the Family's unique definition of "kidnapping" which apparently includes any situation in which a "backslider" attempts to exercise his/her parental rights, obtains custody orders from a court and the assistance of law enforcement agencies and others to enforce those orders. Based on these publications and others, it is clear to me that the guiding principle of the Family's child custody practices and policies seems to be that children in the Family are the "property" of the organization and that lawful actions by parents to remove their children from the organization constitute "theft" of the Family's "property." Thus, they are willing to almost anything, including breaking the law and living on the run, to recover and retain their "property." The welfare of children, respect for the fundamental human rights of parents and children and compliance with the law seem to be distanct secondary considerations (if they are considered at all).
APR- 1989 GN 369 DO
1. We Protect Family Teens—Not Their Backslidden Parents!
4. Who Should Fight for the Children?! (#2496)
http://media.xfamily.org/docs/fam/gn/ml2496-gn369.pdf
[Note: Based on the info in this publication, it appears that the children in question may be Pamela Eckhardt's children discussed in the following newspaper article from September 1988. However, this has not been confirmed.]
http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Atlanta_Journal-Constitution:_Alpharetta_Mom_Working_to_Rescue_Children_From_Sex_Cult_in_Thailand
GN 357 DO FEB. 1989
A CALL TO ARMS!—Bv Paul Papers 9/88—Guard Your Children!—And Attitudes!
http://media.xfamily.org/docs/fam/gn/call-to-arms-gn357.pdf
"PURSUE. FOR THOU SHALT SURELY RECOVER ALL!"—lSam. 30: 8
—Excerpts of Barz' Reaction to "It's Time to Fight!—For Your Children!"
JAN. 1989 GN 352 DO
BOUND BY THE LAW?—"The Law is Not Made for the Righteous!" 1 Tim. 1:9.—From Paul Papers
http://media.xfamily.org/docs/fam/gn/bound-by-the-law-gn352.pdf
FSM120 (FN229) DO February, 1989
HOW WE FOUGHT FOR OUR CHILDREN!
http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/How_We_Fought_For_Our_Children%21
http://media.xfamily.org/docs/fam/fsm/how-we-fought-for-our-children-fsm120.pdf
"After two years of battling in court, the RNR hit, & I married S. We
took an honest look at the situation & saw it was going nowhere & I was
stuck in the States because of it. So we decided to take matters into
our own hands. I had visitation rights twice a month, so we made our
plans. When we picked up the kids one Friday afternoon, we just kept
driving. When Sunday night came & they realised we weren't bringing the
children back, we were clear in another state!...We didn't stay too long
in our new state as we decided we didn't want to go through court again
even if it did sound favourable. We raised the funds & went to the
field. We were frightened to be found, but also a bit wiser as to what
the System could & would do."
GN 337 DO OCT. 1988
1. Warning of Dozens of Deadly Dangers!
8. Brands Snatched From the Fire?
15. Faithy's Rebuttal!
WARNING OF DOZENS OF DEADLY DANGERS! 8/88 —Defend Your Kids!—By Paul P.
http://media.xfamily.org/docs/fam/gn/GN-337.pdf
Does the Family respect the law and the human rights of children and their parents? Consider this advice and commentary from the Family Care Foundation's Grant Montgomery:
7. Under no circumstances should you allow your children to visit
backslidden ex-mates as it's a potential opening for the Enemy to get in
to pollute the kids or turn them against Family ways.
9. Don't send videos or photos of your children to a backslidden mate, &
if any of your very favourable relatives do take photos or videos of
your children when they visit etc., discourage them from showing these
to anyone else.
11. The clue that led to a Family member along with his two children
being located & extradited back to the U.S. from a mission field,
resulting in himself being thrown into prison, was a photo he had sent
to his backslidden exmate!— The authorities that his ex-wife turned
to, to try to locate her "kidnapped children", were able to trace them
from the foliage in the photo's background, plants which were only found
in a certain country, thereby pinpointing their location!
18. When you hear that "passive" backsliders or certainly somewhat
unfavorable relatives or ex-mates are planning to visit you, seriously
pray about moving & changing cities, if not countries!
19. If you're aware that a questionable relative is on your mission
field looking for you, don't go near Immigrations or get involved in any
unnecessary legal matters where your passport or visa or residence
papers need to be shown to officials.—If someone's after you, those
are the places they're going to be staking out & probably have done some
legwork or payoffs to have people there on the look-out for you.
45. There are five major areas of "abuse" that "Child Protective
Services" can try to get you on, based solely on random reports from
exmates, neighbours, relatives etc. These include: SEXUAL ABUSE (i.e.
any kind of sex or foreplay that a child under 16 years old engages
in!), PHYSICAL ABUSE (i.e. any spanking which leaves a mark or bruise!),
PHYSICAL NEGLECT (i.e. not feeding, dressing, bathing children
adequately), MEDICAL NEGLECT & EDUCATIONAL NEGLECT (i.e. keeping
children out of System school!)
46.Reports from neighbours, relatives etc.— those phoning the abuse
hotline do not even have to leave their name!—Are investigated
within 24 hours, & neighbours, schools & the children themselves are
usually contacted before the parent even knows he or she has been
reported! 47. If any of your children go to a System school, you might
prayerfully want to consider whether they could straightforwardly answer
questions like, "What docs your Daddy do when you're bad?", "Does Mommy
ever hurt you?", "Do you know what this (points to doll's penis) is
for?", "Docs Daddy have one?—How do you know?", etc.!
48. This is the reason Dad has advised that any spankings be done out of
sight & hearing of neighbours, & he's constantly reminding us to be on
guard, especially on Western Home fields!
67. If the children are regained legally, it should be stated that
visitation rights will be worked out between the two parties themselves
so as not to be bound by law on this point.
77. It's going to take a lot of time & patience & love on your part to
pull them through. Pubs geared to teens like "Heaven's Girl", "Taking
the Blame" etc., can help provide them with the excitement, challenge &
responsible attitude they're going to need as they make their own
decision to serve the Lord again. Be ready to encounter System "virtues"
such as foolishness, pride, murmuring, laziness, lying, stealing, desire
for material possessions, etc. Remember, Love never fails!
78. During this time, have pow-wow material ready, including letters
that your backslidden ex-mate has written you over the years where they
have probably attacked different things in the Family, & expose these
lies, as well as any other lies & doubts that they've been fed during
this time out of the Family.
81. Some cautious Family members have made it a point now to not even
allow backslidden mates to know where they live or send any recent
photos or anything that they could potentially use against them. Even
having their children write their brothers or sisters who might still be
in the System, they pre-read all this mail to make sure it only dwells
on positive things about how school is great, summer vacation is fun &
things that normal Systemites do rather than using strong Family
vocabulary. All such mail is routed through another Family member's or
even a favourable relative's address, & for all the unfavourable
relatives know, they're still living in the same old country, not
abroad, or vice versa.
