Religious conflicts within families

Question 1

Children and Religious Conflict 1

Answer 1

Religions encourage a religious upbringing and if parents fail to deliver on this they will be seen as failures to other believers.

Question 2

Children and Religious Conflict 2

Answer 2

Parents worry that their children will become immoral as a result of breaking away from the religion.

Question 3

Children and Religious Conflict 3

Answer 3

Parents worry that they will not be with their children after they die.

Question 4

Children and Religious Conflicts 4

Answer 4

Children may believe their right to their own beliefs is being taken away by their parents.

Question 5

Interfaith Marriage 1

Answer 5

For a wedding ceremony the couple need to share the same religion.

Question 6

​Interfaith Marriage 2

Answer 6

There will be disputes upon what religion children will be brought up in.

Question 7

Interfaith Marriage 3

Answer 7

The couples may be buried separately in accordance with religious values.

Question 8

Interfaith Marriage 4

Answer 8

On both sides of the marriage among extended family there is a feeling that you have betrayed your roots.

Question 9

Children Become More Religious than Parents 1

Answer 9

Parents will be angry if their child seeks to take a low paid job as a priest or imam when they have set aside money for them to attend university. This also means they will become celibate denying the parents a chance of grandchildren.

Question 10

Children Become More Religious than their Parents 2

Answer 10

Children may criticise their parents for not strictly following the religion. Such as Hindu’s eating beef, Muslims running off-licenses and Jews using contraception.

Question 11

Children Become More Religious than their Parents 3

Answer 11

Some Children may expect their parents to uphold all of the practices of their religions. Such as reading the Bible every day as a Baptist, following all the rules of Shabbat as a Jew and abstaining from alcohol as a Sikh.

Question 12

Disagreements on Moral Issues

Answer 12

Conflicts can occur if someone wants to do something against their religion including:

• Catholic or Sikh wants divorce
• Cohabiting and engaging in pre-marital sex
• If a religious person decides to write for a pornographic magazine or be a strip tease artist.
• Abortion