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===Raised in the COG and later left=== {{Anchor|Raised in COG as children}} * [[Christopher Owens]]: musician, of US indie band [[Girls (band)|Girls]], was brought up in TFI by his parents.<ref>{{cite web |first=Ryan |last=Dombal |url=http://www.pitchfork.com/features/interviews/8669-girls/ |title=Girls |website=Pitchfork |date=2011-09-14 |access-date=2016-07-24 |archive-date=September 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925013850/http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/8669-girls/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.faqmagazine.org/ChristopherGirls.htm |title=Christopher Owens |first=Emily |last=Easley |website=FAQ magazine |access-date=2012-10-13 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005052054/http://www.faqmagazine.org/ChristopherGirls.htm |archive-date=2012-10-05 }}</ref> * [[Rose McGowan]]: film actress, described her TFI childhood in interviews with [[Howard Stern]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Howard Stern radio broadcast |url=http://lavender.fortunecity.com/dale/536/media/arthoward.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000819115657/http://lavender.fortunecity.com/dale/536/media/arthoward.htm |archive-date=August 19, 2000}}</ref> ''[[People (American magazine)|People]]'' magazine,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20522622,00.html|title=Rose McGowan: How She Survived and Escaped a Cult|website=People|access-date=February 15, 2015|archive-date=February 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216144932/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20522622,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> and later in her book ''Brave''. * [[River Phoenix]], [[Joaquin Phoenix]], [[Rain Phoenix]], [[Liberty Phoenix]], and [[Summer Phoenix]], actors, were members of the group from 1972 to 1978. River Phoenix, who died of a drug overdose in 1993, told ''[[Details (magazine)|Details]]'' magazine in November 1991 that "they're ruining people's lives."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Friend |first=Tad |date=March 1994 |title=River, with love and anger |journal=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]] |volume=121 |issue=3 |pages=108β117 |issn=0014-0791 |url=http://www.aleka.org/phoenix/zines/phoenix7.htm |access-date=22 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216162846/http://aleka.org/phoenix/zines/phoenix7.htm |archive-date=16 February 2009 }}</ref> * [[Susan Justice]]: American pop rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, known best for her debut self-recorded album, ''The Subway Recordings''. * [[Tina Dupuy]]: American journalist and syndicated columnist. * [[Ricky Rodriguez]]: subject of the suppressed manual advocating adult-child sexual contact, committed a [[murder-suicide]] in 2005, killing one of the women who raised and allegedly sexually abused him, then himself.<ref name="suicide"/> * Davida Kelley: eldest daughter of Sara Kelley, who was [[David Berg]]'s nanny and raised Davida and [[Ricky Rodriguez]] in a highly abusive environment. Davida has been outspoken about the group's abuse in public media such as ''Larry King Live'' and accused Berg of sexually abusing her as a child in a June 2005 ''Rolling Stone'' article.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Wilkinson |first1=Peter |title=The Life and Death of the 'Children of God' Messiah |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/children-of-god-cult-messiah-chosen-one-182272/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=10 April 2024 |date=30 June 2005}}</ref> * [[Juliana Buhring]]: first woman to bicycle around the world<ref>{{cite news |last=Moreton |first=Cole |date=22 December 2012 |title=Juliana Buhring becomes first woman to cycle round the world as she pedals into Naples after 152 days on the road |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9763072/Juliana-Buhring-becomes-first-woman-to-cycle-round-the-world-as-she-pedals-into-Naples-after-152-days-on-the-road.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9763072/Juliana-Buhring-becomes-first-woman-to-cycle-round-the-world-as-she-pedals-into-Naples-after-152-days-on-the-road.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and co-author of ''[[Not Without My Sister]]'' along with Celeste and Kristina Jones. * Lauren Hough: author of ''Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing'',<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/27/family-religious-cult-former-member-recalls-experiences |title=Work, pray, fear: my life in the Family cult |last=Hough |first=Lauren |date=2016-11-27 |newspaper=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |access-date=2016-12-06 |archive-date=December 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161206190016/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/27/family-religious-cult-former-member-recalls-experiences |url-status=live}}</ref> brought up in TFI. * Flor Edwards, author,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://floredwards.com/about/|title=Apocalypse Child|date=June 24, 2017 |access-date=2020-02-17|archive-date=February 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217082703/https://floredwards.com/about/|url-status=live}}</ref> who was raised inside the group before her parents moved out. * Dawn Watson: victim of sexual abuse while living in a TFI community.<ref name="brazilian"/> * Taylor Stevens: author,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-stevens/post_1818_b_834665.html|title=On Writing 'The Informationist' and Coming from a Cult Background|website=Huffington Post|date=25 May 2011|access-date=December 3, 2017|archive-date=August 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828104257/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-stevens/post_1818_b_834665.html|url-status=live}}</ref> raised in the group from age 12 until she left in her 20's with her two children. *Bexy Cameron: British child member who left aged 15 and later wrote a book about her experiences.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/07/guardian-journalist-helped-me-see-way-out-ex-children-of-god-cult-member|title=Guardian journalist helped me see a way out, ex-cult member recalls|date=July 7, 2021|website=the Guardian|access-date=April 4, 2022|archive-date=April 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220404175149/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/07/guardian-journalist-helped-me-see-way-out-ex-children-of-god-cult-member|url-status=live}}</ref> *Faith Jones: a lawyer, was raised in the group in Macau before leaving. She wrote about her life in the book ''Sex Cult Nun''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jones |first=Faith |author-link= |date=2021 |title=Sex Cult Nun |url= |location=New York |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers |page= |isbn=978-0-06-295245-5}}</ref>
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