Originally Posted by Hektore

Well, I suppose the line for me falls in how I define raising your child. Raising your child, to me is the part where you mold the type of person they are going to be, what values they're going to have ect. I believe there should be intervention in cases of neglect or abuse, because you aren't raising your child. As far as what constitutes abuse, I suppose that is a case by case problem.

In this case, I don't think they are abusing their daughters, just indoctrinating them into a different value system then the one that I function in. I guess it boils down to myself failing to see that this process is inherently harmful. The potential exists, but there also exists a great potential that these girls will not suffer in any way. People live long happy lives all over the globe as fundamental Christians; reasonable people live this life. For myself, it's weird, it's not the best parenting strategy, but just because it doesn't work for me doesn't mean it doesn't work well for other people. Maybe I'm just too much of a relativist.

Ultimately, I believe there will come a point in these girls lives when they realize that they do not have to adopt the same belief system as their parents, they are free to make their own choices and are responsible to do so. That could only be because that's what happened to me, and I chose a different path than many of those in my family would have chosen for me. I do not feel I was harmed in any way by a similar value system, in a way I believe I benefited because it enabled me to avoid things I was not mature enough to handle. I also benefited from a solid sexual education and parents who didn't use religion as an tool to avoid important issues because they should not have come up anyway. It's unfortunate that there won't be the same education for many of these girls.