“I wouldn’t trade my upbringing for anything. Now I have my own family and I pray they can one day turn around and say the same about me and their heritage.”
—Raquel, 27, second-generation member of the Family International.

Friday, March 25th, 2005
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“Granted, our way of life is not suited to all, and I’ve experienced that with my own family firsthand. However, I’m sure my brothers and sisters can attest with me that we were never abused or suffered the abuse the Family is currently being accused of by some today. To the contrary, we were loved [...]

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
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“Through the slander and efforts of a minority of Family ‘haters,’ my mom and my brother and sisters were ripped out of bed in a pre-dawn raid and taken by authorities to an institution in Buenos Aires, Argentina. There, they were abused, probed, fondled and literally terrorized by teams of doctors, police and psychologists off [...]

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
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“So … if someone we love is disturbed, are we expected to buy into their pathology to prove that we care???”
—Gina Wilson, 29, second-generation member of the Family International.

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
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“I’m not going to say that the Family is perfect, and there are things that I maybe don’t agree with or things I would have done differently, but nothing to the extreme that “Davidito” (Ricky Rodriguez) was talking about. Maybe I’m just naive and innocent but I also grew up in the Family, I’ve been [...]

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
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