 The founder of Scientology - science fiction author  L. Ron Hubbard  (qv) - gave instructions on how to deal with every detail in human life. His followers considered him a specialist in the field of bringing up the children and the Church of Scientology expects parents to follow Hubbard s instructions. The children are considered adults in small bodies, better known as Thetans (souls) in small bodies. The Thetans have left their previous mortal frame (that is when a person dies) and have taken residence in a new frame, and that might just as well be the one of a child. Within the elite of Scientology, a uniformed corps called the Sea Organization, these practises lead to abuse and the children grow up literally as orphans.