Topic summary
American Family Foundation
Extracted from the Wikipedia article International Cultic Studies Association.
History
The American Family Foundation (AFF) was founded by Kay Barney in 1979 in Lexington, Massachusetts. It was one of a few anti-cult groups founded in this period, and one of several dozen disparate parents' groups founded in the late 1970s by concerned parents. Barney's daughter had joined the Unification Church, and he came to see her relationship with it as alarming and controlling; he sought to learn more and therefore counteract its influence. The American Family Foundation was conservative in orientation.