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We often think of cults as being hierarchical and authoritarian and top down, but there's

this other dynamic that can emerge where if you are a member of a high demand group and

you have children, you kind of become a child yourself, you become equal with other children

in the group.

How did that play out for you?

Yeah, I think there's a lot of children who get sent away.

And I know that in the orgs, kids spend a tremendous amount of time on their own together

in groups, and I'm aware of like a few families that we knew whose kids did that.

Also, Scientology has two schools.

As an elementary school in Boston, and has a high school and middle school in Sheridan,

Oregon, and a lot of like committed Scientologists send their children to those schools and their

private schools, so they spend the night.

I think the Boston one is, my parents didn't have money to do anything like that.

So it was very much off the table for us.

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