Introduction: alternative childhoods / Susan J. Palmer and Charlotte E. Hardman
Witches: the next generation / Helen Berger
Education and collective identity: public schooling of Hare Krishna youths / E. Burke Rochford Jr.
In whose interest? separating children from mothers in the Sullivan Institute/Fourth Wall Community / Amy Siskind
God's children: physical and spiritual growth among Evangelical Christians / Simon Coleman
Osho Ko Hsuan school: educating the "new child" / Elizabeth Puttick
Growing up as Mother's Children: socializing a second generation in Sahaja Yoga / Judith Coney
The children of ISOT / Gretchen Siegler
Children of the Underground Temple: growing up in Damanhur / Massimo Introvigne
Frontiers and families: the children of Island Pond / Susan J. Palmer
Social control of new religions: from "brainwashing" claims to child sex abuse accusations / James T. Richardson
The precarious balance between freedom of religion and the best interests of the child / Michael W. Homer
Children of a Newer God: the English courts, custody disputes, and NRMs / Anthony Bradney
The ethics of children in three new religions / Charlotte E. Hardman.