With cloudy gray skies and autumn neigh, students flocked to Claremont McKenna College’s Athenaeum on Oct. 16 for Michelle Dowd PZ ’90’s talk “What I Learned from Foraging (And Surviving a Family Cult).” A Pitzer College alumna, Dowd is a…[Continue Reading...]
SKOWHEGAN — Aria Sanborn knew she had to escape. She also knew what would happen if she failed. Sanborn had lived for nearly 20 years inside a small rural mobile home in Liberty with her siblings, mother and abusive stepfather,…[Continue Reading...]
For nearly a decade, they were at the mercy of a father who saw himself as the new Messiah. In a case that shocked the Netherlands, Gerrit-Jan van Dorsten was alleged to have confined nine of his children to the family's…[Continue Reading...]
Ben Thibaudeau fears his son Blaze, 16, may have been snuck into Canada by his estranged wife Spring, who he says abruptly bought thousands of dollars of survival gear and cut off all communication because she believes their son has been…[Continue Reading...]
Growing up in the 1950s, Denis Sandoz dreamed of escape. He was the youngest of 13 children living at 18 Rue d’Avron, in Paris’s 20th Arrondissement, and was the only family member to receive any formal education. His mother always…[Continue Reading...]
When Michelle Dowd first started writing as a young girl, it was during stolen moments in the margins of a Sears catalog. The only larger book she owned was her childhood Bible, and in her family the catalog was akin…[Continue Reading...]
Jinger Duggar Vuolo says her childhood was filled with “fear” due in large part to the “cult-like” teachings of the religion she followed. “I thought I had to wear only skirts and dresses to please God,” the former “19 Kids…[Continue Reading...]
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