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True Family is a term used by the members of the Unification Church to describe the family of Sun Myung Moon and his wife Hak Ja Han (or Hakja Han Moon). Unification Church members regard Reverend Moon as the Second Coming of Christ, and he and his wife as the "True Parents" of humankind, who have realized the ideal of true love as the incarnation of God's Word. The members of the Unification Movement generally address or refer to Rev. and Mrs. Moon as "Father" and "Mother" or "True Father" and "True Mother." Their children are known as the "True Children."

Rev. and Mrs. Moon's family

The True Parents

Rev. Sun Myung Moon ("True Father" to members; "Father Moon" to some outsiders) - founder
Mrs. Hakja Han Moon ("True Mother" to members; "Mother Moon" to some outsiders) - founder's wife and officially-designated immediate successor. Their marriage in 1960 is referred to as the "Marriage of the Lamb."

Rev. Moon and Mrs. Moon are regarded to have achieved the status of True Parents on January 1 1968, at the end of their "7-year course" of marriage together, at which point they became God incarnate on earth, representing the perfection of God's masculine and feminine aspects. Unification theology teaches that Jesus achieved this perfection and incarnation of God only on the individual level (a lesser accomplishment than that of Sun Myung Moon and Hakja Han Moon due to Jesus not being able to marry and raise up a bride, which was because of the lack of faith of his followers).
The primary mission of True Parents is to engraft all people on earth and in the spirit world to their sinless lineage, removing them from the satanic lineage established at the fall of humanity (the original sin in the Garden of Eden).

The True Children

Yejin Moon - daughter, born 1960. Left the church.

Hyo Jin Moon - son, born 1961 (died 2008 of heart failure). Musician; long-term problems with substance abuse, infidelity, and violence.

Hae Jin Moon - daughter, born 1964 (died in infancy).

InJin Moon - daughter, born 1965. Toured with Mrs. Moon and Nansook Hong giving public speeches; wrote open letter

to members regarding Bo Hi Pak.

Heung Jin Moon - son, born 1966 (died 1984, car accident). Called "king of the spirit world" by Rev. Moon; "channeling" of him by mediums was prominent in the late 1980s, see especially the "Black Heung Jin Nim."

Un Jin Moon - daughter, born 1967. Olympic equestrian. Left the church. Appeared on 60 Minutes with Nansook Hong to support her story.

Hyun Jin Moon - son, born 1969. Businessman, youth leader, Olympic equestrian.

Kook Jin Moon - son, born 1970. More commonly known as Justin Moon; businessman and firearms designer. Owns and operates Kahr Arms, a U.S. small arms manufacturer.

Kwon Jin Moon - son, born 1975.

Sun Jin Moon - daughter, born 1976.

Young Jin Moon - son, born 1978 (died 1999, fell off balcony, ruled suicide by police).

Hyung Jin Moon - son, born 1979. Author of The Bald Head and the Strawberry and 2 other books. Incorporated some Buddhism practices.

Yeon Jin Moon - daughter, born 1981. Documentary film maker; was contestant on Survival of the Richest.

Jeung Jin Moon - daughter, born 1982. The spouses of all the above are also considered part of the True Family, along with other children from Rev. Moon's previous marriages (and their spouses)

Other members of the True Family

Soon Ae Hong - born February 22 1914 (who members know by the title "Dae Mo Nim," which means "Exalted Mother") - Mrs. Moon's mother (died Dec 1989). Medium Hyo Nam Kim is said to have been channeling her since the mid-1990s at the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center in Korea.

Nansook Hong - ex-wife of eldest son Hyo Jin Moon. Left the church and retained custody of their five children; author of tell-all book, In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family (ISBN 0-316-34816-3).

Julia Moon - wife (posthumous wedding) of Heung Jin Moon. Born Hoon Sook Pak, oldest daughter of long time major leader and key aide Bo Hi Pak. Prima ballerina and General Director of Universal Ballet in South Korea.

Family environment and child raising

The family environment in which the True Children were raised has been described as "lavish" and as one of "luxury and privilege."
In her 1998 book, Nansook Hong (ex-wife of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han's eldest son Hyo Jin Moon), who lived with the Moon family for 15 years, reported that the True Parents and the True Children were not very close. During an interview for 60 Minutes she explained that, for example, the younger children don't really speak Korean and Sun Myung Moon isn't really able to speak English, so they can't communicate well; Donna Collins, the first "Blessed Child" born in the West, also interviewed for 60 Minutes, said that in her observation even the relationship he'd with his older children was never particularly intimate.
Rev. Moon has said that his mission to save the world came first, explaining at some length.

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