Child-Friendly Faith Project Conference 2014 How can we better address child maltreatment that occurs in faith communities? What should we do when religious or cultural practices are unhealthy for children? This year’s Read More
Readers’ Comments on BREAKING THEIR WILL
From Bruce on May 17, 2018: This is a well written, objective book. From Vennie on January 10, 2018: This book is so incredibly informative. Anyone who has a heart to parent without physically or mentally harming their child, will gain so much knowledge by reading this book. … Read More
Videos from CFFP Conference 2013
Child-Friendly Faith Project President Janet Heimlich opens the organization’s first conference. She expresses the importance of viewing children differently than we might normally do as the first step toward achieving child-friendly faith. [7:03] Texas Supreme… Read More
The Real Michael Pearl
The media has pitted me against Michael Pearl on more than one occasion. The controversial, pro-spanking, Tennessee-based Christian preacher says children should not be disciplined but “trained” by hitting them with instruments such as tree branches or quarter-inch plumbing line. I have been vocal about my concerns that Pearl’s childrearing… Read More
CFFP 2013 Conference Speakers
Bethany Brittain grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home. As prescribed by church leaders, her parents used corporal punishment on Ms. Brittain and her three siblings starting in infancy. Frequent and severe beatings continued into their teen years, during which time Ms. Brittain was home-schooled in isolation and groomed to… Read More
CFFP CONFERENCE 2013 AGENDA
November 8, 2013 – St. David’s Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas 8:00 – 9:00 Check-in/Breakfast 9:00 – 9:10 Opening remarks by CFFP President, Janet Heimlich 9:10 – 9:20 Welcome by Texas Supreme Court Justice Debra H. Lehrmann 9:20 – 10:20 Where Faith Meets the Law: Child Welfare Laws and the First… Read More
CFFP in the News
Faith Project Educates on Child Maltreatment Published in Plainsman Press on October 26, 2015 by Chesanie Brantley Children throughout the world are suffering from abuse related to religious and cultural ideologies. The Child-Friendly Faith Project (CFFP) is a national nonprofit public charity that protects children from Read More
Janet Heimlich’s BREAKING THEIR WILL
Religion can be a source of comfort, strength, and inspiration for young people, but it can also mask deviant and harmful behavior on the part of adults who care for children. High-profile cases such as those of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and “faith healing” medical neglect child… Read More
More than she could bear
Nina Koistinen By now you’ve probably heard about the case of Nina Koistinen. The 36-year-old mother from Phoenix has been charged with first-degree murder, after she confessed to suffocating her 6-day-old baby, Maya. Koistinen reportedly told authorities that she killed the child, because she “had too… Read More
A survivor of religious child maltreatment becomes an advocate for children who suffer today
This article originally appeared on Religious Child Maltreatment. Liz Heywood grew up in the Christian Science Church outside of Boston, the church’s headquarters. When she was a teenager, she developed a serious bone infection in her knee. Her family, members of the Christian Science Church, arranged for her to receive… Read More