Finding Peace: Jenna’s Story

Fear became an instant factor in everything we did
My parents impressed on me that CPS was the Enemy and that we were to hide from them and fear being “taken away” by them.

Flying Out-Ellie Katerina’s Story

But the relieving truth of it all is, that you begin to stretch your wings. You begin to reach out and see that there are real things like love and support and healthy relationships.

Bringing Back Child Labor?

It is rather shocking that the very people who give the most lip service to education, America’s Founding Fathers, the value of children, and Christian morals, are the same ones advocating for elimination of compulsory education laws, a reduction of child labor laws, and the idolization of one form of human (i.e. fallible) government.

The Fixer

For years, David C. Gibbs III and his organizations pulled in millions of dollars while advocating on behalf of child abusers.

Oregon Refuge Children Hid the Guns before Running

Last Friday, as soon as their mother climbed in the shower, five Sharp children bolted down the driveway of their Auburn, Kan., home.

Before they left, according to testimony in a Wednesday hearing, they took the guns out of a cubbyhole in the house and stashed them at the end of the drive. Then they got a ride from a neighbor to the Shawnee County sheriff’s office in Topeka.

Don’t Let The Devil In: Samantha’s Story

When we were kids she and Terry drilled us on how to argue religious points with him.

We regurgitated the dogma on topics such as Calvinism, baptism, and Old Testament law that was seared in our hearts

I Wish I Didn’t Know

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The Nightmare is Over: James’ Story

You know those occasional news stories about mothers who ‘go crazy’ and drown all their kids in the bathtub? My mother was one of those—she just never managed to kill us properly

No Longer Afraid: Aerin’s Story

My life was not built to prepare me to fly; it was built to contain me in a cage with my wings clipped, never thinking for myself, never dreaming any bigger than the bars that held me.

Child Abuse Prevention in the Church is Not Big Government

Peterson argues that background checks for church child care are equivalent to Nazi Germany’s laws against Jewish people.