# Leaving Without a Before · The Cult Dossier · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow

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The Cult Dossier · No. 182 · Second Generation / Born In
Leaving Without a Before
Second-generation exit; what an SGA has to invent
Continuous · Wherever anyone born in gets out
XVIII. THE SECOND GENERATION — THE ONES WHO NEVER CHOSE
None. This entry is about the exit, not the belief.
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- The decision LEAVING MEANS LOSING THE FAMILY, NOT ESCAPING IT. In most groups in this dossier the people who will shun a departing member are that member's parents and siblings.
- The first year Documents, schooling and money. SEVERAL OF THE ACCOUNTS IN THIS FILE DESCRIBE ADULTS LEARNING TO USE A BANK, A DOCTOR'S SURGERY OR A SUPERMARKET FOR THE FIRST TIME.
- 2013 THE GROUNDED-THEORY STUDY OF FIFTEEN SECOND-GENERATION ADULTS (177) is published. Later work by its lead author describes working out who they are apart from the group’s doctrine as a central and ongoing task of recovery — BUILDING AN IDENTITY RATHER THAN RESTORING ONE.
- After A DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE WHO EVENTUALLY TESTIFY, WRITE OR CAMPAIGN AGAINST THESE GROUPS ARE THE ONES WHO WERE BORN IN. Tranche 3 of this file is substantially their work.
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