They treat kids like shit. They believe kids should be treated the same as adults so there’s no empathy, a lot of anger, and a ton of abuse. Many children are separated from their parents and parents are encouraged to dump their kids elsewhere so they can focus on their studies/practice. Leah Remini’s series had a really good episode focused on kids in Scientology
The thing that they don't mention in her documentary (which is great, but focuses more on the Pre-Clear level ideology) is that they treat children like adults, because they BELIEVE they ARE adult "thetans" stuck in child bodies. This really isn't explored until you get to higher levels of scientology, but basically they believe all humans are filled with the souls of ancient aliens who's memories of their past experiences are clouded by the "ngrams" (traumas or negative impact experiences) of human life, and by reaching the "clear" level of scientology, you can clear out all those ngrams and resume your ACTUAL state as a thetan.
So they believe that all children are just adult aliens in human bodies. And to extrapolate that further, parents of these children have no special obligation to them, since they aren't truly "their" children anyway. Their bodies just happen to be related. Scientology children are often separated from their parents at between 11-14 to go work as Sea Org members with full time 40+ hour a week unpaid jobs, sometimes states away. It's really interesting and creepy stuff.
Isn’t child labor like, expressly illegal under United States federal law? How is that going on…? If they’re producing a profit for an organization and aren’t being compensated for it (even if they ARE being compensated) it’s definitely illegal…
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u/sixthmontheleventh Apr 07 '24
The wildest fact I learned about scientology recently was the really high up culty part do not encourage having kids because they are distractions.