One of the greatest reasons home school advocates give for home schooling is that the want to be closer to God. They want to move away from public sex ed. Evolution. And so many other harms in the world. It rarely comes up what they are learning.
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For the Duggars, THIS is how they learned about sexual abuse.
In a chart that was designed to show what sexual abuse was, and includes blaming the victim for "immodest dress" or having "evil friends", the victim is taken to task as the reason why the may have suffered an attack.
Bill Gothard, who's teaching is devoutly followed by many has been labeled a "cult" and a "brain washer" by children who grew up under the program.
http://www.recoveringgrace.org/...
Bill Gothard created a cult, and he did a fine job of it.
He didn’t create a commune that physically isolated his followers from the rest of the world. He didn’t lead weird sessions with chanting and candles. He didn’t even come up with strange names for his teachings. He conducted his cult in the wide-open view of the church, and for twenty or thirty years, he was wildly successful.
What was so brilliant about his “new approach” to cult-building?
Bill Gothard, the man behind IBLP (the Institute in Basic Life Principles) has setup a following of his standards that is meant to attract young couples as a path to improve themselves through Christ - but also to do so by redefining the way they think about themselves.
This cultish system was has been noted by those who have dropped away as "like thinking life was a video game". (http://www.recoveringgrace.org/...)
http://shoebat.com/...
Josh Duggar’s brother-in-law is the ATI administrative director. Jim Bob Duggar, Michelle Duggar and a handful of their children have given Embassy Institute lectures. In the newly released memoir Growing Up Duggar, the four eldest daughters even promoted ATI and IBLP programs. They specifically spoke about the Journey to the Heart retreat — which begins at the IBLP headquarters in Illinois and takes the young women to the Northwoods Conference Center in Michigan where Recovering Grace says “most of the sexual misconduct occurred.” The Duggar girls now serve as retreat leaders.
While it is easy for several of us to scoff at the hypocrisy the Duggars represent, we have to realize this problem goes beyond the Duggars, and shapes the lives of many young girls and boys. They are brought to believe that abuse is their fault, that they have failed God in some way.
It is easy to bash Duggar.. but we must move beyond that and realize that no matter what is said about the abuse we know, the healing may be hard fought for so many young children who are not provided the opportunity to recognize that this isn't their fault, they are not to blame, and society doesn't hate them.