Janja Lalich's New Research Project Seeking People to Interview I have embarked on a new research project, which I have entitled "On Our Own: How Children of Cults Manage to Survive in the 'Outside' World." This project has been approved by the Human Subjects in Research Committee at California State University, Chico, where I am on the faculty in the Sociology Department. The purpose of the project is to explore the attitudes, experiences, coping mechanisms, and issues related to societal integration of young people leaving a cultic group to enter mainstream society. I will be doing in-depth interviews, focus groups, and handing out a brief questionnaire to gather basic data. I am particularly interested in individuals who were born and/or raised in a group and who left the group during adolescence or young adulthood on their own - that is, without their parents.