dissent narrativeThis study examined 250 posts to the Protect LDS Children website, a counter-institutional movement seeking the end of private youth interviews with male Bishops that ask sexually explicit questions in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Narrative analysis suggests two ...
baptism, conferring the gift of the Holy Ghost, and the blessings of gathering with fellow believers to “keep [each other] in the right way, … relying alone upon the merits of Christ
Personal note: This book is intriguing to me because I graduated from high school in 1969. I think of my mother and her friends and the few options they had to pursue their dreams. But it was an exciting time, because change was in the air and Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman” was OUR...
While this seems like a worthy purpose, members of our organization, United Families International, a pro-family advocacy group (NGO) that works at the UN, and our youth organization, International Voice for Youth, understand that there are deadly “land mines” littering the documents that will...
Evidence linking parental inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with autism in children is inconclusive. We conducted four complementary studies to investigate associations between parental IBD and autism in children, and elucidated their underlying etiology. Conducting a nationwide population-based cohort study ...
Carrie Laraspecializes in working with children and families on child and human development, including foster and adoptive youth, those with learning disabilities and special education, and children dealing with trauma, using attachment-based play therapy. She lives in Sonoma County, CA. Visit her at...
with parents and adult children holding temple recommends, and youth over the age of twelve holding limited-use recommends, the family together attends the temple and baptismal and confirmation ordinances are performed. Ordination, endowment, and sealing ordinances are subsequently performed by the adult...
For the Strength of Youth August 2024 “Faith and a Fall”A boy thinks he can be indestructible like the Stripling Warriors. Then he learns that they weren’t indestructible, but they trusted in the Lord, and He strengthened them.
He struggled emotionally and academically and was expelled from several schools. A few years later, Stallone went to live with his mother and her second husband in Philadelphia. There he attended a special high school for troubled youth. After graduation, Stallone eventually went on to college. ...
International Journal of Mormon StudiesSherlock-Taselaar, Ingrid 2010, `Religious Freedom in Belgium: A Limited Study of Challenges as Experiences by LDS Children and Youth in Flemish Classrooms from the 1970s Until Today'. International Journal of Mormon Studies, Vol. 3....