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The Family International is a Christian cult formerly known as the Children of God, The Family of Love, and The Family.
Today, The Family's leadership is headed by Berg's widow Karen Zerby, under whom the group has both bowed to several reforms and initiated additional unconventional doctrines, including the "LovingJesus revelation" which encourages members from the age of 14 to engage in a sexual relationship with Jesus.
Family leadership, admitting only that that some children were abused from 1978 until 1986, created policies prohibiting excessive discipline or any sexual contact between adults and minors.
The "Family" has as many as 6,000 full-time adult workers who labor at spreading their message in 100 countries.
The Family of God aka Children of God are perhaps the quintessential sect representing the high and low points of the Jesus movement.
Despite the current move by the leadership of the family to be more palatable to mainstream society, they are still dogged by issues of child sexual abuse and incest.
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