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Originally Posted by Unregistered
I agree with you! The LC is a tiny fringe sub culture with it's own set of mores, rituals, lifestyle, etc. and is an unhealthy place for children to grow up because it is essentially a "bubble" with no connection to real life outside of it. Many children who grew up in the LC during the 60s and 70s were not allowed to watch TV, listen to the radio, play sports, dance, celebrate Christmas, Easter or birthdays. Their parents would use their vacation time to go to conferences and trainings held by Mr. Lee. Many families were uprooted and children pulled out of schools mid-semester to migrate or consolidate for the "Lord's" move (read: Lee's move). With such turbulent childhoods is it any wonder many grew up, left the LC and found it difficult to function in society outside the crazy world they grew up in?
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I cannot fully agree with you. I do agree to a certain extent. I'm one who was a LC kid during the 70's (pre-school-6th grade). It's a healthy environment up through 6th grade. It was those years from 7th grade-12th grade directions are taken to segregate boys and girls without explanation. Meaning it was impressed upon me it was improper if not sinful for boys and girls to be talking. This impression was carried over into school to if I spoke to a classmate of the opposite gender, I felt as if I was sinning. I believe the segregation is proper to an extent, but the boys and girls need to interact socially to a degree. By no means would I advocate dating is okay.
As to what children growing up in the lc's are allowed to do, in part is defined by how much influence does the system wield over the parents or do the parents raise their children as they see fit. I've been in homes of church kids where there was no tv and in other homes where there were tv's and even an atari game system. As a churchkid in Anaheim, celebrating birthdays, Thanksgiving, etc was common. Maybe for households that were influenced by a Jehovah's Witness background, there would be an aversion to celebrations. I say this in part because the LC is a melting pot of many backgrounds (baptist, mennonite, JW, Catholic, etc).
Seeing how the local churches are today, it seems there's far more emphasis indoctrinating youth in the ministry at an earlier age than I experienced. My feeling as a parent the focus should be purely 100% on the Bible.