Editing Sea Org (section)

===Marriage and family===
{{see also|Scientology and abortion|Scientology and sex|Cadet Org}}
From the early 1970s to the start of the 21st century, Sea Org members' children were often placed in the [[Cadet Org]]. Sea Org members may marry one another but are not permitted to marry outside the organization; extramarital sex is also prohibited. Couples with children must leave the Sea Org and return to other staff positions within the church until the child is six years old; thereafter the children are raised communally and allowed to visit their parents in the Sea Org on weekends or about an hour a day.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-scientology062690-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131193459/http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-scientology062690,0,425562,full.story |archive-date=January 31, 2008 |title=Defectors Recount Lives of Hard Work, Punishment |date=June 26, 1990 |first1=Robert W. |last1=Welkos |first2=Joel |last2=Sappell|website=[[Los Angeles Times]] }}</ref> Children of members have themselves joined the Sea Org when they came of age.{{r|melton2003|page=57}} Several former members have said they were advised (or even forced) to have an [[abortion]] to avoid being sent to lower organizations. Scientology presents itself as opposed to abortion and actively speaks out against it in its publications.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kent|first=Stephen A.|title=Scientology -- Is this a Religion?|author-link=Stephen A. Kent|journal=[[Marburg Journal of Religion]]|volume=4|number=1|date=1999|pages=1–56|publisher=[[University of Marburg]]|doi=10.17192/mjr.1999.4.3754|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://exscientologykids.com/sea-org-2/ |title=The Sea Org / Cadet Org |website=[[Exscientologykids.com]] |date=September 27, 2012 |access-date=17 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Lattin |first=Don |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fchronicle%2Farchive%2F2001%2F02%2F12%2FMN171898.DTL |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312184658/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fchronicle%2Farchive%2F2001%2F02%2F12%2FMN171898.DTL |archive-date=March 12, 2008 |title=Leaving the Fold: Third-generation Scientologist grows disillusioned with faith |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |date=12 February 2001}}</ref>