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To: one_less who wrote (217908)	2/12/2007 11:42:05 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Judges frequently rule over custody battles in favor of the parent who agrees to raise the child according to the religious traditions of the family's history" Frequently? I doubt that is much of a factor in 99% of custody battles. Maybe 99% plus. Have you statistics on this? I would be interested.

To: one_less who wrote (217908)	2/12/2007 11:50:09 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Sorry. Was so surprised by your comment (that this is frequent), that I forgot to adddress the entanglement aspect. It is as I suspected- what the court looks at is trying to make the child's home life as stable as possible. The best interests of the child are presumed to be that he or she should continue doing what he or she did before. So if a Jew and a Christian are married, and the child has been attending Hebrew school, the child should keep attending. Changing the status of the child's religion would be- as the site at bottom says- frowned upon. This is a support of the status quo, rather than a support of religion. If, for example, the child was attending no church, and an evangelical mother suddenly wanted the child to go to Christian school, the court would have a problem with that. That does not make the court against religion (or for it, in the other case)- it merely makes it a bureaucracy charged with trying to secure the stability of the child. divorcenet.com