What would you do if your kid changed his religion?

[THutch04]

Most likely, I’d secretly blame myself for being the “convert parent” and think I somehow had an influence over that decision. I think it would be hypocritical of me to be angry considering I left my old Church while still living with my parents. I would do what my parents did with me; continue to love them and pray for them…

 

[sing]

To those of you saying ‘not under my roof!’ – it’s not something you can control. You can make your child go to Church; you can even make him or her receive communion (forcing them into mortal sin, by the way) but you can’t make them Catholic. All you’re doing is encouraging them to lie to you and draw more distant and resentful.

I speak from experience.

I’m seconding it, too, from experience, both from me and my sister.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I would treat it in the same way I would if he/she began living with someone to whom he/she was not married.

I would pray for them without ceasing. I would love them as my child. I would treat them humanely. But never, ever, ever would I approve of it. Nor would I, for a single moment, allow them to suppose I did. Nor would I ever attend a single function at their chosen church, any more than I would invite a “live-in” to dinner at my home.