Assignment 2: Children's Belief System

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4. Children’s belief system
Couples from different belief systems and life philosophies need to guide their children to an ideal beliefs systems is really challenging. Since neither self or spouse strongly affirm their respective religions and yet neither of them wishes to convert to the other’s religion, their children cannot be raised in a religious way of life. Every religious have same core value, yet, their practices and traditions are different. Couples need to guide and instill the basic understanding of religions to their children in very early stage. For example couple that do not want to offend either spouse, neither Judaism nor Christianity will be practiced and it is wrong to assume that some innocent mixed of the two religions

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