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American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children: "Psychosocial Evaluation of Suspected Psychological Maltreatment in Children and Adolescents" - abstract
American Psychiatric Association: "Statement on Repressed Memories of Abuse"
APA: "Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse"
Asser, Seth & Swan, Rita: "Child Fatalities from Religion-Motivated Medical Neglect" - abstract
Baker, Amy, Ph.D.: "The Cult of Parenthood: A Qualitative Study of Parental Alientation" - abstract
Bardin, Livia, M.S.W.: "Child Protection in an Authoritarian Community: culture Clash and Systemic Weakness"
Borgman, Dean: "Social Influences on Youth"
Boyle, Robin A.: "How Children in Cults May Use Emancipation Laws to Free Themselves"
Dhira, Govinda Das: "A Response to the Two Child Abuse Articles" - Hare Krishna
Furnari, Leona: "Born or Raised in Closed, High-Demand Groups or Cults: Developmental Issues"
Grandparents' Rights - book review by Robin Boyle, Esq.
Greene, Ford, Esq.: "Litigating Child Custody with Religious Cults"
Halperin, David, M.D.: "Cults and Children: The Role of the Psychotherapist" - abstract
Help at Any Cost - Book Review by Steve K. D. Eichel, Ph.D.
How Can Young People Protect Themselves
Kandel, Randy, Ph.D., Esq.: "Litigating the Cult-Related Child Custody Case"
Kelley, Susan, Ph.D.: "Ritualistic Abuse of Children: Dynamics and Impact" - abstract
Kent, Stephen, Ph.D.: "Education and Reeducation in Ideological Organizations and their Implications for Children" - abstract
Kent, Stephen, Ph.D.: "Generational Revolt by the Adult Children of First-Generation members of the Children of God/The Family" - abstract
Landa_Susan: "Children and Cults: A Practical Guide"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: "Outline: Child Literature"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Child Custody and Cults"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Children and Cults -- excerpt from Recovery from Cults
Lloyd, David, Esq.: "Ritual Child Abuse: Understanding the Controversies" - abstract
Lutz, Alison & Borgman, Dean: "Teenage Spirituality and the Internet"
Muster, Nori: "Authoritarian Culture and Child Abuse in ISKCON" - abstract
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) - link
Nitty Gritty on Cults (ISKCON) - link
Rochford, Burke: "Child Abuse in the Hare Krishna Movement:1971-1986" - (full text 237k)
Rochford, Burke: "Further Reflections on Child Abuse within ISKCON" - Hare Krishna
Shrestha, Bharata das: "ISKCON’s Response to Child Abuse: 1990-98" - Hare Krishna
Stein, Alexandra: "Mothers in Cults: The Influence of Cults on the Relationship of Mothers to Their Children" - abstract
The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories - Book Review by Doni Whitset, Ph.D., LCSW
Whitsett, Doni & Kent, Stephen: "Cults and Families" - abstract
Whitsett, Doni, Ph.D.: "The Psychobiology of Trauma and Child Maltreatment"

12 Jurors, 2 Parents, 1 Dead Child

13,000 abuse claims in juvie centers

2 men sue Mormons, Scouts over abuse

A Comment on "Cult Conversion, Deprogramming and the Triune Brain"

A Response to the Two Child Abuse Articles

Adoptee Allegedly "Brainwashed"

Alamo Cult Child Returned

Allen Harrod/Child Abuse: Harrod Followers Arrested

Anne Hamilton-Byrne/The Family: Ex-Follower Ties Drug Use to Membership

Ariel Ben Sherman: Abuse Charges Dropped

Article on Cultic Child Abuse

Attachment Therapy: Parents Say Controversial therapy Helped

Attacks on Peripheral versus Central Elements of Self and the Impact of Thought Reforming Techniques

Attleboro (The Body): Woman Said to be Cutting Ties to Group

Authoritarian Culture and Child Abuse in ISKCON

B.C. seized three ailing sextuplets

Book Review: The Suggestibility of Children's Recollection

Brainwashing and Re-Indoctrination Programs in the Children of God/The Family

Brainwashing and the Moonies

Care conflict over BC sextuplets sparks bloody row

Cascade Center for Growth: Death by Water Punishment

Child Abuse

Child Abuse: “Alumni” of Canadian Reform Schools Sue

Child Abuse: Child Advocacy Award

Child Abuse: Children Kept in Cells at Islamic School

Child Abuse: Claims Freedom of Religion Allows Marriage to Children

Child Abuse: Guilty Pleas in Neglect Case

Child Abuse: Pastor Faces 30 Years for "Holy Spankings"

Child Abuse: Religious Justification

Child Custody Breakthrough with Yahweh Group

Child Killer's Penalty to Be Reviewed

Child Protection in an Authoritarian Community: Culture Clash and Systemic Weakness

Child’s death renews scrutiny of Remnant Fellowship Church

Child-bride case fizzles

Children of God: Children, Now Grown, Tell of Raid Experience

Children Removed from Alamos

Church of God (Aylmer): Spanking Probe Widens in Canada

Church of God (Aylmer): The Ideology of Child Spanking

Church of God/Aylmer: Seizure of Children Ruled Constitutional

Church's critics say verdict is a lesson

Cobb cop testifies parents feared son, 8

Commentary on Borawick v Shay--Hypnosis, Social Influence, Incestuous Child Abuse and Satanic Ritual Abuse

Couple charged in son's beating death won't take stand

Couple get life terms for killing their son

Court lets sect kids see dad, but not TV

COURT WATCH: Neglect Conviction Upheld

Courts: 1-Year Term in Fatal Spanking

Courts: 1-Year Term in Fatal Spanking

Courts: Court Limits Ashram Visits

Courts: Father Gets Children in Church Child Abuse Case

Cult Formation

Cult Involvement: Suggestions for Concerned Parents & Professionals

Cult leader faces child sex charges

Cultism and the Law: Litigating the Cult-Related Child Custody Case

Cults and Children: The Abuse of the Young

Cults and Children: The Role of the Psychotherapist

Cults, Coercion, and Contumely

Cults, Evangelicals, and the Ethics of Social Influence

Cults, Psychological Manipulation, and Society: International Perspectives - An Overview

Custody to Father

Custody to Non-Witness Spouse

Deprogramming: A Case Study Part I

Deprogramming: A Case Study Part II

Doctor raises doubts about marks on boy

Dutroux, Marc/ Child Abuse: He Allegedly Brainwashed Children

Education and Reeducation in Ideological Organizations and Their Implications for Children

Elder gets two years probation for molesting 12-year-old girl

Faith in God Christian Deliverance Church: Raid to Investigate Child Abuse

Faith Tabernacle Congregation: Child’s Death Allegedly Due to Faith Healing Belief

Faith Walk or Death March?

Family (COG) Second Generation Needs Healing

Family Leaders Plead Guilty; Children Tell of Cult Life

Father Gets Custody from "Cult"

Father Wins Custody from Commune

Federal Review Looms in Boot Camp Death

Former pastor charged with child rape

Former Sect Member Reunited with Daughter

Four Winds/Lucille Poulin: Nun Accused of Leading Destructive Cult

Four Winds: Commune Leader Convicted of Assault

France: Raid on "Horus" Sect

French woman convicted of abducting children from Canada freed

FROM THE COURTS: Faith Healer Sentenced, Grandparents' Visitation Law

Fundraiser for father

General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn: Parents Charged in Faith Healing Death

GLOBAL SCAN: Canada - Call for Compensation for Sect Detentions

Global: Canada - Children Returned to Cultic Group After Raid to Arrest Alleged Abusers

God’s Creation Outreach Ministry: Mother Pleads Guilty in Death of Son

God’s Creation Outreach Ministry: Women Guilty of Child Abuse

Government to Protect Children

Grandparents’ Rights

Help for children being abandoned in Colorado City

House of Prayer: Child Abuse Charges Dropped against Some

House of Prayer: Children Returned to Parents

House of Prayer: Group Sues State for Custodial Child Abuse

House of Prayer: Leader Arrested

House of Prayer: Pastor and Members Sentenced for Whipping

How Children In Cults May Use Emancipation Laws

In the Courts: Grandparents' Visitation Rights

In the Courts: Brainwashing without Physical Bonds, Scientology, 7th Day Adventist Death

IN THE COURTS: Charismatic Church Pastor Accused of Sexual Assault, C-O 11-9 & 10 1994

In the Courts: Conversion Not Impediment to Custody

In the Courts: Couple Accused in Child's Death May Have Belonged to Shoresh Yishai Cult

In the Courts: Custody Ruling Upheld

IN THE COURTS: CUT Member Loses Custody of Children

IN THE COURTS: Fathers Get Custody in Alamo Commune Case

IN THE COURTS: Grandparents' Visitation Law

In the Courts: Pediatricians Urge Exemption Repeal

IN THE COURTS: Ritualistic Child Abuse

Inside Chile's Colony of Terror

Interesting Times

Interfaith Coalition Concerned About Cults’ Abuse of Women, Children

International News: Spain-Children of God

INTERNATIONAL: Germany-Seminar in the East

INTERNATIONAL: Scotland-Abuse at School in Scotland

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Court Refuses to Allow Teen to Determine Medical Treatment; Father Alleges “Brianwashing” by Church Group

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Enticing Children with Candy Alleged

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Sentencing Postponed in Infant Murder

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Story of “Shunning”

Jurors weigh case against parents accused of beating their 8-year-old son to death

Jury begins deliberations in parents' murder trial

Kabalarian Society: Girl’s Diary Can Be Used in Abuse Case

Kidnap-charge pastor up for extradition

Kitsap Co. pastor pleads guilty to child rape

Kitsap pastor pleads guilty to raping girls in congregation

Krishna Children Found Dead in Refrigerator – Activist Comments

Kyirebentua Faith Church: Children of Faith Healers Inoculated

Law Student Advocates Religious Defense

Limits Exposure of Child to Way

Litigating Child Custody with Religious Cults

Litigating the Cult-Related Child Custody Case

'Little Pebble' faces teen sex assault charges

Lucille Poulin: Alberta “Failed” The Children in Poulin’s Group in 1995

Measure would assist 'Lost Boys'

Mexico tightens jail terms for child abuse

Mind Control and the Battering of Women

Missed chances of ending 20 years of cruelty

Mom allowed to communicate with kids

Mothers in Cults: The Influence of Cults on the Relationship of Mothers to Their Children

Mothers Seek Children

MOVE: Man in Custody Battle Murdered

MOVE: MOVE Members Fortify House

Mrs. Alamo Loses Custody Bid

New Life Tabernacle: Ariel Ben Sherman Accused of Child Abuse

North Carolina Enforces Spanking Ban

Nuwaubians: Leader Sued for Alleged Child Abuse

Nuwaubians: Nuwaubian Leader Held on Child Sexual Abuse Charges

NYC Child Killer Must Pay $15M to Mother

On Resisting Social Influence

One Woman's Account of Abuse Leads to Rape Charges for SK Pastor

Order of St. Charbel: “Pope”-To-Be Charged with Sex Offenses