Tender Loving Care: Escaping One of the Most Dangerous Cults in America

Synanon stole my baby—and still I believed.They sterilized the men and coerced women to have abortions—and still I believed.They carried guns and violently confronted their enemies—and still I believed.     In the shadow of Berkeley's radical 1960s, nineteen-year-old Janet was drawn to Synanon—a drug-free, violence-free community once hailed as a "e;miracle on the beach."e; What began as a haven f...