How does the Church view relationships between Scientologist and family members who aren t Scientologists?
The Church encourages and helps its members to have excellent family relationships, whether their relatives are Scientologists or not. In fact, relationships between a Scientologist and the rest of his family routinely improve after his involvement in Scientology, because through Scientology one acquires the means to increase communication and resolve any problems that might have existed before. The Church goes to great lengths to reconcile family differences should any such problem arise. Family members of Scientologists are always welcome to visit the Church, to meet other Scientologists and to have their questions about Scientology answered. The only occasions when reconciliation is hard to accomplish is when extremist, anti-religious hate groups intervene and make communication difficult or impossible. Such groups have a vested interest in inflaming rather than defusing upsets among family members, and are always closely connected to deprogrammers — hired thugs who prey upon the c
