[Hermana Linda]

Originally Posted by Taedareth

Whoa! Then how do you distinguish them from GD'ers?

GD'ers don't always stay calm and speak to their children with soft tones and GD'd children don't always drop everything and obey. There is a creepy shadow in the background, something almost robotic in the children's obedience, that you will learn to distinguish.

Originally Posted by Taedareth

Interesting... the Pearl mama of my acquaintance is also a super crunchy person. She's having a home birth and I think she's planning to homeschool. She's got a DVD on herbalism that she says was made by Pearl's daughter.

Right, generally very crunchy.

Originally Posted by Taedareth

What kind of relationship do the Pearls have with their children? I thought I read somewhere on GCM that they are estranged from their adult children?

It's the Ezzos who are estranged. The Pearls still have their children completely under their control. The girls were given to "husbands" and are considered married by the "church" (their papa) but are not married by the State. They do. think and feel everything their father and/or husband tells them to. If you want more information about their daughter, Rebekah, you can Google her name. She has a statement about this, in defense of her parents, which you can easily find. I don't know the names of their other children.