Nicole
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I found a very nice person that translated a part of my German diplom thesis. Theme of this part is the regulary child abuse in Scientology. Imho that person made a very good and actual English version. Thank you very much!
Complete article and references at http://kindseininscientology.wordpr...ts-with-no-childhood-children-in-scientology/
Complete article and references at http://kindseininscientology.wordpr...ts-with-no-childhood-children-in-scientology/
Scientology claims to create happy, loving, and productive human
beings and happy families. It achieves exactly the opposite.
Hubbard himself did not like children: "If you can tell the difference
between a lot of little kids you run into, and psychos, I'll give you
a medal." (L. Ron Hubbard, Professional Auditor's Bulletin Nr. 119
"The Big Auditing Problem", 1.9.1958. )
Hubbard taught that children are small adults, able to think and fend
for themselves from a very early age. "Scientologists are encouraged
not to treat sick children with conventional medication, not to
comfort and nurture children, and to cut or restrict ties with
grandparents if they are not Scientologists."
"They had children doing physical work, sometimes 40 to 60 hours a
week. It could be anything - shoveling gravel, laying carpet, but
mostly it was clerical work ... Many of the children don't do as well
as they should academically."
"If I was ill, my mother gave me a 'touch assist" where I would lie
down and close my eyes and she would touch me with her finger and ask,
'Feel my finger.' This was also done until I felt better. I never
felt better from theses processes but would have to pretend I did
because she wouldn't stop until I said I felt good."
Teresa Summers claimed that children are routinely asked to spy on one
another and are subjected to gruelling punishments. "It's called
making amends, and it can be anything - my daughter was made to scrub
poles, paint walls, report on her friends. I let her do all that,"
she said.
Children as young as six are also subjected to security checks or "sec
checks". One list designed for children aged 6 to 12 included the
following "insidious, guilt-inducing" questions. [HCO Bulletin, 21
September 1961]
- What has somebody told you not to tell?
- Do you have a secret?
- Have you ever made yourself sick or hurt yourself to make somebody sorry?
- Have you ever spoiled things for people?
- Have you ever done anything you shouldn't when you were supposed to
be asleep?
Children may be disconnected. Children who misbehave are by
definition suppressive and so they are forbidden to have contact with
their parents, because they hinder the advancement of their parents in
Scientology. [Eimuth 1997, 90f.] U.S. Sonntag was told that her son
was a "suppressive person" and that the org was going to make an
example of him. 'In the Italian restaurant one floor below the Org a
small boy sat alone at a table and ate. His mother sat apart from him
at another table. I was told that the boy was an SP and that his
mother must handle him. She had to disconnect from him in order to
move forward."
"The end-product is a disturbed child, who is unable to adapt. These
children carry with them overwhelming guilt, always confronting or
experiencing their past crimes, like the endless repetition of a
horror film, trying to understand them well enough to bring closure."
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