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To: Grainne who wrote (20419)	4/15/1998 12:25:00 AM
From: WalleyB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Chrisintine, What you said makes sense to me too, but only in theory. In practice it isn't practical. Who is going to be given the power and authority to tell parents not to teach their children what the powers that be deem unacceptable (the act of teaching not the doctrine - as you say). In order to pull that off you would have to deny the parents the right to raise their children, take them away shortly after birth and let the state raise them according to their dictates. One way or the other somebody ends up with the tikes and teaches them something. If you let the parents keep the children then the law of regulation becomes unwieldy and awkward and burdensome, not to mention subject to every kind of corruption. The effect in either case is worse than the problem you attempt to cure. Fact is there have been countries that have attempted this kind of thing to one degree or another. But for reasons I will not say I will keep that to myself. <g> If people teach hatred, its a fault of man. Who else could you blame. Beliefs whether religious or political will divide people, there's no getting around it, is there? jim

To: Grainne who wrote (20419)	4/15/1998 9:53:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Also, what right do I have to try to indoctrinate my child? I am not sure I have any at all. Ouch, CGB!!!! As a parent you not only have a right, you have an obligation to teach your child ethics and principles by which they will hopefully lead a happy and productive life. Since for most parents these principles are inextricably woven into their religious beliefs, they are "indoctrinating" only in the sense that they are teaching ethics within the context of a belief system. You have done the same with Briana according to your belief system. All childrearing is indoctrination of some sort; otherwise parents would be no more than a Hotel 6 with a free buffet (though I admit this is what we feel like most of the time now anyway). To question the rights of parents to raise their children at such a fundamental level terrifies me. For the same reason, I wouldn't tell anyone they are "wrong" to spank a child. Although I may have arrived at a conclusion about the efficacy or damage of corporal punishment by way of my own experiences and education, I do not think I possess some ultimate truth. Someone else may arrive in a different but for him equally valid, place with different experiences. And I would never presume to interfere with their beliefs unless the well-being of a child were threatened in a serious way.