[Wonder Woman]

Originally Posted by Taedareth

The Ezzos are estranged from their adult children? Ok so what ages are the Pearl kids and what kind of relationship do they have from their parents?

AFA I know, they work with them in the "ministry", although I don't believe all of them live nearby. None of the girls have legal marriage licenses, because apparently their holy unions would be sullied by having government paper issued by a 'sodomite' favoring government (Yes, he does actually call on Christian couples to divorce and just shack up to protest gay marriage.) Because, you know, I'm less married and not hetero since my marriage license was issued in a country where gay couples have the same legal rights I do But I digress

Anyway...I'd never say that his methods 100% of the time produce kids who hate their parents or who don't have a relationship w/them. I mean, Ezzo promotes detachment - blanket training, crib time, CIO, get those kids in their place and let them know daddy's needs come first, by golly.

Pearl promotes loving attachment, bf, constant family engagement, dads spending time with their boys, bringing the kids alongside the family - very continuum conceptish. EXCEPT - he also promotes beating the snot out of them with a plastic rod or a tree limb or any other implement you can think of.

So it raises children who on the one hand, have experienced loving parents...and on the other hand, who have never learned to truly process an emotion or make choices for themselves. People who are taught that appearance is all, and as long as it looks good and you can smile then you must be truly happy, right?

People who escape are the exception to this type of punitive upbringing, really. Many of the kids in my generation from subcultures like the one I grew up in are just replicating this with their kids - generation upon generation too scared to question or change Or else they've rejected everything altogether and have been lost to promiscuity, drugs, alcohol, and other harmful and self-punishing behaviors