Editing Twelve Tribes communities (section)

===Child labor and homeschooling===
In 2001, ''[[The New York Post]]'' ran an article accusing the group of [[child labor]] violations;<ref name="Worshippers">{{cite news |last=Moeller |first=Katy |date=April 15, 2001 |title=Worshippers of Yahshua as savior weather storm – Cambridge farm counters criticism |work=Daily Gazette |publisher=John E.N. Hume III |pages=A–01}}</ref><ref name="allegations">{{cite news |last=Associated Press |date=April 14, 2001 |title=Twelve Tribes sect opens farm to Press group Denies Charges of Child Labor, Racism |work=Watertown Daily Times |page=29}}</ref> and later attributed itself as having prompted the investigation.<ref name="Postresponsibility">{{cite news |last=MacIntosh |first=Jeane |date=April 9, 2001 |title=State probes cult in Child Labor Scandal on heels of post report |url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/state_probes_cult_post_child_labor_ejnbb0yjhckbYDg0QWMiJK |access-date=January 3, 2010 |work=New York Post |publisher=[[News Corporation (1980–2013)|News Corporation]]}}</ref> The Twelve Tribes responded with a press conference at the Common Sense Farm where the alleged child labor had taken place.<ref name="Worshippers" /><ref name="allegations" /><ref name="noapology" /> The Twelve Tribes reported that during a random inspection by [[Estée Lauder Companies]], the company discovered that several 14-year-olds had been found assisting their fathers in the factory.<ref name="allegations" /> This report was later confirmed by Estée Lauder who terminated their contract with Common Sense products.<ref name="noapology" /> The group's official statement at the press conference stated that they believed that it was a [[family-owned business]], and children ought to be able to help their parents in the business while making "no apology" for it.<ref name="Postresponsibility" /><ref name="noapology" /> The [[New York State Department of Labor]] stated that they intended to visit all five of the Twelve Tribes' businesses. State Attorney General [[Eliot Spitzer]] said that apprenticeships amounted to [[indentured servitude]] and were illegal. [[Robert Redford]]'s [[Sundance Group#Sundance Catalog|Sundance Catalog]], who had contracted with Common Wealth Woodworks (another of the group's industries that made furniture), also terminated their contract as a response to the allegations.<ref name="noapology" /> The Labor Department found no violations at Common Sense Farm or Commonwealth Woodworks. They did propose a fine on two other industries: $2,000 for allegations of child labor law violations that the group's spokesperson, Jean Swantko Wiseman, was quoted in a news article as saying were for a 15-year-old pushing a [[wheelbarrow]] and another 15-year-old changing a [[lightbulb]].<ref name="fifteen" />

In June 2018, another New York State investigation into the Common Sense Farm was launched, yielding allegations of child labor, after an ''[[Inside Edition]]'' hidden camera investigation revealed children working in the group's soap factory. The Twelve Tribes-owned business Greener Formulas had been contracted with brands including Acure and Savannah Bee to manufacture its private label body care products and was using the facilities of Common Sense Farm (also owned by the group) for production. Both Acure and Savannah Bee terminated their contracts with Greener Formulas following the airing of the ''Inside Edition'' story.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 1, 2018 |title=Undercover Investigation Exposes Child Labor in New York Compound |url=https://www.insideedition.com/undercover-investigation-exposes-child-labor-new-york-compound-43812 |access-date=March 2, 2020 |website=Inside Edition |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Rulison" />

In Germany and France, the controversies centered on the issues of homeschooling, health, child abuse, and religious freedom. The group has several times been in conflict with authorities in Germany and France over [[child abuse]] and homeschooling, with a particularly long and protracted dispute between the community in Klosterzimmern, in the municipality of [[Deiningen]], Bavaria, and Bavarian education authorities.<ref name="Richardson2004">{{cite book |author=Jean A. Swantko |title=Regulating religion: case studies from around the globe |publisher=Springer |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-306-47886-4 |editor=James T. Richardson |editor-link=James T. Richardson |pages=197–199 |chapter=The Twelve Tribes Communities, the Anti-Cult Movement, and Governmental Response |access-date=August 27, 2011 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U6opyVE_IYkC&pg=PA197}}</ref><ref name="welt">{{cite news |author=Alexander Görlach |date=February 4, 2006 |title=Sieg der Sekten-Eltern |url=https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article195835/Sieg_der_Sekten_Eltern.html |access-date=August 26, 2011 |work=Die Welt}}</ref> Homeschooling is illegal in Germany, with [[Homeschooling in Germany|rare exceptions]].<ref name="Richardson2004" /> When fines and arrests failed to have an effect on the community, authorities granted the group the right to operate a private school on the commune's premises in 2011, under state supervision.<!--repcite:welt--><!--repcite:Spiegel--> The agreement entailed that the school would not teach [[sex education]] or [[evolution]].<ref name="welt" /><ref name="Spiegel">{{cite news |last=cpa/jol/dpa |date=August 29, 2006 |title=Schulboykott. "Zwölf Stämme" erhalten eigene Schule |url=http://www.spiegel.de/schulspiegel/wissen/0,1518,434193,00.html |access-date=August 26, 2011 |work=[[Der Spiegel]]}}</ref> Authorities revoked the school's right to operate in 2013, after it refused to answer to allegations of physical abuse and a lack of certified teaching staff.<ref name="dlf">{{cite news |date=June 7, 2013 |title=Aus für bayerische Sektenschule |url=https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/aus-fuer-bayerische-sektenschule.680.de.html?dram:article_id=249316 |access-date=September 13, 2021}}</ref>