Uncultured memoir5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() By then, she had been beaten and sexually abused by various “Uncles,” who were aided and abetted by “Aunties,” who disliked Mestyanek Young’s constant questioning of and growing resistance to their many rules-including “sharing” sex as a form of God’s love. The author’s mother grew up in “the Family,” as their cult was known, and became pregnant at 14, but Mestyanek Young didn’t learn who her real father was until she was a teenager herself. The Children of God, founded in California in 1969 by “failed fifty-year-old preacher” David Berg, appealed to members of the counterculture as a spiritual path to inner peace. Lucky for readers, she found her way through both experiences and then wrote it all down. Army, a group she chose to enlist in as a young adult, have both left many scars. Leaving the Children of God, the cult she was born into, and surviving the U.S. ![]() Escape, by definition, is rarely easy, and in Uncultured, Daniella Mestyanek Young illustrates just how difficult it can be. ![]()
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