by Heather Cate | Jul 23, 2008 | Kids, People, Religions, Social Justice
The leader of the FLDS, a Mormon polygamist sect, has been charged with child sex abuse again. Jeffs has been in the news this year for his involvement in the YFZ child sex abuse charges in Texas. This new charge of felony sexual assault of a child comes from a US...
by Heather Cate | May 3, 2008 | Kids, Metaphysics, Religions, Social Justice
I have had lots of requests for information about how to help the YFZ kids, the ones who were taken away from what appears to be an abusive Mormon compound in Texas. For a little background, see some of the previous YFZ posts here. The Texas Child Protective Services...
by Heather Cate | Apr 24, 2008 | Holistic Healing, Kids, People, Psychology, Religions, Social Justice
Ok, I have mixed feelings about this. Foster care is not perfect, either. The head of the Texas Psychological Association was on the Dr. Phil show yesterday and proposed a solution that to me sounds like, well, maybe a good option. The ideal theory? Re-educate the...
by Heather Cate | Apr 21, 2008 | Groups, Kids, Religions, Social Justice
Yearning For Zion is a group of Mormons, Latter Day Saints is what they like to be called. Recently, their ranch/compound in Texas was raided and all of their children were taken because there is evidence of 13 year old girls being pregnant against their will. It is...
by Heather Cate | Apr 21, 2008 | Kids, Religions, Social Justice
“Child abuse was a way of life” in the YFZ community. “Their definition of abuse may be very different from what society sees as abuse,” Carolyn Jessup told Hoda on the Today Show. Jessup lived with the YFZ community (a religious sect of...
by Heather Cate | Apr 21, 2008 | Holistic Healing, Kids, Religions
The YFZ parents are being interviewed on the Today Show. They feel like they are not being treated justly. Honestly, the women look like robotic Stepford wives. One of them kept blinking very slowly and oddly as if she were drugged. When one of the men was asked if he...
by Heather Cate | Apr 18, 2008 | Coaching, Kids, Metaphysics, Religions, Social Justice
Thank Heavens, Texas seems to be doing a great job protecting the children from the Mormon polygamist compound. Ok, ok, I know, Mormons like to be referred to as Latter Day Saints, but the term saint really doesn’t apply here. If the Dark Side has saints, these...
