TeenPacters Speak Up: Part Seven, It’s All About Standards

“The girls were told how it was their fault if the boys stumbled and lusted after them… Whether it concerned how a woman clothed the lower portion of her body, or what she did with the lower portion of her body, TeenPact was fond of making rules.”

TeenPacters Speak Up: Part Six, TeenPact Breakaway

“I remember the exact moment I began to breakaway from the TeenPact message. And what is funny is that the reason it started to crumble had nothing to do with the misogyny, the hypocritical modesty standards or corrupt election rigging. Instead, it was a young person who dared to speak their opinion; an opinion that the powers-that-be did not share.”

TeenPacters Speak Up: Part Five, TeenPact and Women

“We are told, many times, in no uncertain terms that we (women) are supposed to just go along with whatever the men say – even if we disagree with it, and to not speak up if we do. They’re supposed to lead, after all, and we’re supposed to submit.”

TeenPacters Speak Up: Part Four, My Experience And A Lot Of Parantheses

“I have de-friended most of the Interns (or been de-friended) and have since hidden most of my TeenPact pictures and videos. It is a chapter in my life that I do not regret, but do not like to announce. I prefer that no one remember me or pick me out as one of them. I regret being so conservative and blind. I do not regret getting away and changing.”

TeenPacters Speak Up: Part One, Intro to TeenPact

“The goal of every camp, but especially National Convention and Survival, is to ‘challenge’ students’ spiritual walk. Every camp teaches students from an evangelical christian conservative (patriarchal) viewpoint. ‘Taking the nation back for God’ is ultimately what TeenPact hopes its alumni will grow up to do.”