Cult Proofing Your Kids by Dr. Paul R. Martin

From the Back Cover

YOUR CHILD COULD

BE LURED INTO A CULT

NO MATTER HOW SPIRITUAL YOU ARE, NO MATTER HOW STRONG

your family, you could lose your child to the siren call of the cults.

Time and time again Dr. Paul Martin has seen dedicated Christian young people fall into the trap of cults and fringe churches. Himself a victim of a cultic fringe church, Dr. Martin now reaches out to other former cult members, assisting hundreds of them to find healing.

Now Dr. Martin shares his expertise in the first book about cults designed especially for concerned Christian parents...There is nothing more heartbreaking than losing your child to a cult. But with Cult-Proofing Your Kids, you now have the tools you need to prevent that from happening -- or to fight back when it does.

"A very practical tool for parents, counselors, youth leaders, and anyone else concerned about the potential dangers lurking in today's spiritual supermarket."

Ronald Enroth, Westmount College, author of Churches That Abuse.

Paul R. Martin, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist directs the Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center in Ohio, a counseling center for former cultists. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Cult Awareness Network and is an advisory board member for the American Family Foundation.

Contents

The Cult Problem

1. What is a Cult?
2. Fringe Churches
3. Why Do People Join Cults?
4. Myths of Cult Involvement
5. Spotting a Cult

Teaching and Parenting Cult-Free Kids

1. The Healthy Family
2. Parenting Tips
3. Cult-Proofing Your Schools
4. Developing Critical Thinking Skills
5. Cults and Friendships
6. Cults and the Church
7. Cults and Society

Recovery From Cult Involvement

1. When Your Child Joins a Cult
2. Pitfalls to Recovery

Appendix C: Recommended Reading

Andres, Rachel, and James R. Lane, eds. Cults and Consequences: The Definitive Handbook

Ankerberg, John, and John Weldon. Cult Watch: What You Need to Know About Spiritual Deception

Breese, Dave. Know the Marks of Cults

Bussell, Harold. Unholy Devotion: Why Cults Lure Christians.

Enroth, Ronald M. The Lure of the Cults and New Religions: Why They Attract and What We Can Do.

Hassan, Steve. Combatting Cult Mind Control.

Howard, Jay, with Timothy Fink and Nathan Unseth. Confronting the Cultist in the New Age.

LeBar, Rev. James J. Cults, Sects, and the New Age.

Martin, Walter R. The Kingdom of the Cults.

Sire, James. Scripture Twisting: 20 Ways the Cults Misread the Bible.

Tucker, Ruth. Another Gospel: Alternate Religions and the New Age Movement.

Watson, William. A Concise Dictionary of Cults and Religions.

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