Editing David Berg (section)

==Personal life==
Berg married his first wife, Jane Miller (known as "Mother Eve" in the Children of God), on July 22, 1944, in [[Glendale, California]].<ref name=":0" /> They had four children.

Berg married his second wife, Karen Zerby, in 1970.<ref name=":2" /> Berg informally adopted [[Ricky Rodriguez]], Zerby's son.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|last=Goodstein|first=Laurie|date=January 15, 2005|title=Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult (Published 2005)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/15/us/murder-and-suicide-reviving-claims-of-child-abuse-in-cult.html |access-date=November 26, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In the 1970s and 1980s, sexually suggestive photographic depictions of Rodriguez with adult caretakers were disseminated throughout the group by Berg and Zerby in a childrearing handbook known as ''The Story of Davidito''.<ref>[http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Story_of_Davidito Story of Davidito] on xFamily.org</ref> In January 2005, Ricky Rodriguez murdered one of the female caretakers shown in the handbook before taking his own life several hours later.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Kaye|first=Randi|date=December 4, 2007|title=Young man's suicide blamed on mother's cult|website=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/12/04/kaye.murdersuicide/ |access-date=November 26, 2020}}</ref>