Pattern of LC Families Sacrificing Children on the Altar

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Originally Posted by Terry

What I had heard over the years is attend the meetings and the church life will take care of the marriage life and family life.

I think this sums it up pretty well. Lee's ministry is full of this type of notion, and there are plenty of families in the LC where the "church life" is placed first.

So in regards to the children of these families, I think they tend to end up in the middle of it all. Lets face it, kids in the LC are there because their parents are, many times is obvious that some of the kids don't really like it.

I think the whole issue of families "throwing kids under the bus" usually comes to play when kids reach young adulthood. By this time most kids have either become disintersted in the LC, or have developed a growing interest in it (if for no other reason but to make their parents happy).

Here is a hypothetical situation, and similar to things that I have seen happen (multiple times). A church kid reaches adulthood and wants to date someone, and does so. The serving brothers/elders get wind of this and decide that since they weren't the ones who initiated the relationship, it needs to be torn down. The parents stay out of the situation for fear of being labeled as "negative" for standing up to the brothers. In situations like this, the parents will allow their kid to be "scarified" to avoid becoming a black sheep.