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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (53082)	7/16/2002 5:24:11 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 82486

The test cases in this area have made it clear that parents have enormous latitude in the religious instruction of their children. I happened to do my moot court argument on a case involving the interface of the religious rights of the parent over the child, and child abuse. Parents have unlimited rights in the instruction of their children as regards beliefs. Religious beliefs as they affect the child are limited where the belief of the parent is going to cause serious harm to the child (or at least this is true most of the time). There are cases where children are beaten for allegedly religious reasons, for example. If you are looking for the limits of parents rights to the indoctrination of their children, it is when they cause extreme bodily harm with their beliefs. Should it be there? Hard to say where it "should" be. If you take away the parents' rights to inculcate their own children in the parental faith, then you leave the children vulnerable to what the state will provide, or what the first apostolic person the child meets happens to profess. Children are born with their gullets wide open, for food and for belief. Whatever you tell them is true, is pretty much what they will swallow.

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