How would you react to your child converting to a religion different from yours?

Question

This is directed at people who ALREADY have children, because they will have real people to think of when they give their answer, whereas people without children are thinking of an abstract idea.
I am curious, because I converted and everyone in my family kinda had a different reaction....I am just curious as to how others would react to their children converting.
Thanks =)

Answer 1

I am a Moslem with one child, when I read your question suddenly I remember my daughter, how if she converted to other ways than Islam, I felt a big sadness in my heart to see the fact that I am fail to raise my daughter, fail to take the responsibility that given my Allah since the children’s are given by God…Alhamdulillah it not happening and I will make sure it will never be happened

So, just to thinks about your question is giving me enough sadness yet it only on my mind

Answer 2

Aren't families odd? People who live under the same roof have such varied personalities, you wonder how they can all be related. When I left Christianity, my family's reaction ranged from disownment, to being embarrassed by me, to not caring a bit.

I would support my kids (I have 3 sons) in any choice they made regarding religion. Their beliefs and opinions are simply that -personal to them and in no way a reflection on me.

Answer 3

i grew up christian and hamdolilah i converted to islam 2 years ago. i am 21 now. i have a 9 month old daughter and i am 5 months preg. i am glad i saved my childs soul. because they are lucky they are born into islam and would never have to worry about the trials of rejection from converting. they will alqways be loved and will always be on the right path since we will raise them as straight muslims. i wasnt so lucky because i went all my life christian all the sins i committed, all the things i missed out on because i didnt discover islam earlier. i wish i had the opputunity my children do i would have loved to grow up muslim. i wouldnt be struggling so hard to learn arabic or have to deal with my christin family who definitly werent happy my mother going so far as to say " well i really had hoped to see both of my children in heaven " basically saying her and my brother would be in heaven but i wouldnt be because i am not christian. my children never have to worry about converting. i had to go through all that so they wouldnt have to.

Answer 4

When I told my mom I was Wiccan it took about 3 hours for me to convince her I wasn't going to hell. After that she was ok with it and I'm at the top of her prayer list. We haven’t talked about it since.
For my kids I would probably be the same way and want to understand their religion. As long as I didn't think it would harm them I would support them. If I think it would harm them, then I would keep asking questions hoping they would see the harm I see until they told me to stop and then I would leave them alone.
I'll always be there for my kids regardless of the decisions they make in their lives.

Answer 5

the only suggestion i will grant is sit down, write down each little thing you typed on your question, then on yet another piece of paper, attempt and %. it aside logically and notice if it nevertheless is wise to you. If it does, then you certainly've your faith. you do no longer want a call to have your faith. you do no longer ought to greater healthful a call to have your faith. Your faith is between your self and Deity (you pronounced one God, with lesser beings below it whom you will possibly turn to for help if mandatory). Titles, varieties, even faith itself is a mortal human theory, that's some thing many turn to for convenience, regardless of the undeniable fact that there are a number of categories and flavors of it. Your convenience would be distinctive than somebody else's. you will never locate somebody else which incorporate your comparable ideals. the basics, like what you have indexed, could be comparable, even regardless of the undeniable fact that it nevertheless should not be an identical. anybody is too distinctive from one-yet another. confirm what you think first, THEN seek for a circle/team/congregation/and so on that's the closest experience, yet do no longer stress your self into that container. each faith preaches "in case you are able to no longer locate it interior, you will never locate it without.". this implies that's necessary locate your very own faith based on your very own ideals and innovations (which you have gotten a solid commence on), and then in case you like, you are able to elect to go searching you for people who're of comparable recommendations. there is not any longer something incorrect with studying any (or each, in case you want) faith you come back for the period of. there is likewise no longer something incorrect with adopting those issues from each that proper suits you, and not taking to heart that which does no longer, a "take what suits and flow away something" sort of situation. do no longer enable everyone inform you distinctive from that final factor, as all religions that exist now stemmed from greater than a number of religions that have been lots older, the founders of the 'cutting-factor' religions having in actuality finished an identical situation. once you're wanting a solid leaping-off factor to commence finding, commence with what you have been raised in. solid success. :-)

Answer 6

i am a muslim and have two sons and if either one of them turned around and said that they have converted to a differetn religion it would tear me apart but i would have to let them go and hope and pray that allah show them the right path again
it would also make me feel bad as that would mean that i have failed in my job ilamically to raise them up
but alhumdulilah so far we are going really good and im trying my best to keep them in the straight path

Answer 7

My ex converted from christian to Islam, no one objected to that in his family, i would not like my daughter to convert nor any of my grand children.

Answer 8

I am expecting that she will someday have differing ideas from me. After all, she is an individual being and I believe everyone must go down their own spiritual path.

Answer 9

I would be glad that they felt free to make their own choices.

Then again, I was the first one in the family to leave the religion we all belonged to, so I guess I was setting the example!

Answer 10

I would be fine with it. I don't have children, but my parents tought me about religion with very open minds and told me to believe what I felt was right. None of us believe the same thing and we're still close.