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In Reply to: Seeking Document posted by Investigator on January 21, 2005 at 04:33:14:
Answering your questions:
Is this largely copied from outside material?
TF always borrowed from outside material, and sometimes went as far as plagiarism. Obviously such a large work was largley copied material, but they disguised it as their own.
Does it contain relevant documentation of the group's peculiar child care practices?
A quick browse through it gives me the impression it is somewhere on the continuum more on the "educational side" than on the wierd practices side. There are a damning quotes scattered throughout from Berg that children don't need more than the 6th grade, and education being mostly a waste of time. There is an intro letter "To Train Up A Child" which is a compilation of moletters. There are sections on "sex-ed" but nothing terribly damning as far as a quick browse suggests.
I understand it is a large document. Is this so?
It's 739 pages long. Littered with pictures of happy smiling faces, happy families.
More comments.
Looking at a book like this quickly, you'd never suspect a Davidito book ever existed. It's probably one of the safer GP type publications, although some parts are DFO.
