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The Bathwater Project

Share Your Story

Thank you for trusting The Bathwater Project with your experience. Our goal is to raise awareness about childhood religious commitment and informed consent. You may share as much or as little as you feel comfortable sharing.

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Religion and/or High Control Group Discussed

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Your Experience

1. At what age did you become an official member of your organization (baptism, dedication, initiation, etc.)?

2. Were you born into this organization? Or brought into it?

3. Looking back, do you feel you understood what that commitment meant? Why or why not?

4. What did that commitment represent to you at the time? (ex. wanting to make parents proud, acceptance, etc.)

5. If you later left or questioned your religion/group, what happened?

6. How has this experience affected your life?

Thank you so much for your responses. This is now your opportunity to write your experience in greater detail.

Please focus your story on your experience of becoming an official member of your religion or high-control group, what you understood at the time, and how that decision has affected you later in life.
While you're welcome to include additional context, stories centered on the theme childhood religious commitment are the most helpful to our research.
With your permission, your story may be shared on The Bathwater Project's social media channels (Instagram, TikTok, etc.) in the form of a text carousel.
To protect your privacy, identifying details—including names, locations, and specific religions or high-control groups—may be removed or generalized.

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