Editing The Family International (section)

== Autobiographical accounts ==
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* Davis, Deborah (Linda Berg) (1984). ''THE CHILDREN OF GOD: The Inside Story''. [[Zondervan|Zondervan Books]], Grand Rapids, Michigan. {{ISBN|0-310-27840-6}}. Expose by the founder's eldest daughter who left the cult.
* {{Cite book |last=Connolly |first=Ray |title=Something Somebody Stole |year=2011 |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |isbn=978-1460922545}} Expose by a senior member who left after 20+ years.
*{{Cite book |last=Young |first=Daniella Mestyanek |title=Uncultured: A Memoir |year=2022 |publisher=St. Martin's Publishing |isbn=978-1250280114}} Young was born and raised in The Children of God cult. She's the eldest daughter of a second generation cult member who was 14 when she was impregnated by an older cult member.
*{{Cite book |last=Hough |first=Lauren |title=Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing |year=2021 |publisher=Vintage |isbn=978-0593080764}} Hough was born and raised in the Children of God. Her 2021 essay collection is a New York Times Bestseller.
*{{Cite book |last=Bulwer |first=Perry |title=Misguided: My Jesus Freak Life In a Doomsday Cult |year=2023 |publisher=New Star Books |isbn=978-1554202058}} At age 16, Bulwer ran away to join the Children of God, escaping twenty years later in 1991. He became an advocate for second-generation survivors of the cult's child abuse and psychological trauma. 
** {{cite news|last=Drake|first=Kitty|title=My cultural awakening: Losing My Religion by REM helped me escape a doomsday cult (as told by Perry Bulwer)|newspaper=The Guardian|date=10 January 2026|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jan/10/my-cultural-awakening-losing-my-religion-by-rem-helped-me-escape-a-doomsday-cult}}
*{{Cite book |last=Mahoney |first=Mary |title=Abnormal Normal: My Life in the Children of God |year=2020 |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |isbn=979-8631746060}} Mahoney, a member for 31 years, tells her story, focusing on how her sense of what was normal was altered within the insular world of a cult.
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