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After you and your spouse split, who gets to make the religious decisions? Credit: Getty Images
Clearly this is a question with no clear answer. Still, I think it's an interesting one. Who gets to decide what religion a child will follow after a divorce, especially when one parent converts to a new religion that is more inflexible than others? This particular couple had so much trouble figuring it out they ended up in court. What would you do?
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1-27-2011 @ 11:38PM
nadia said...This one is pretty obvious to me: the child decides once they feel the need to. In the meantime, both parents can expose it to aspects of their religion and educate WITHOUT foisting it upon the child prematurely. A person that age can't even decide what he or she wants to be as an adult, much less something huge like a system of belief. Give the child time to figure it out for themselves, for crying out loud.
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