Found this interesting:

http://www.skeptical-science.com/religion/mormons-buy-myth-raising-kids-church-benefit/

Very good.

Thanks for posting. Excellent points in the article.

Brian Dalton's youtube video imbedded in the article is fantastic! "I'm a Formon"

I wish that all should receive it.

Ye shall receive it. It is the first video of the myth serious. And it has a name but i cannot give it to you.

Very good article and video!

Good advice. Never took my children to a regular church service...ever.

RB

But my impression from reading your posts is that you are the kind of man who would chop wood in a blizzard all day so your children could sleep in front of a warm, glowing woodstove. That's how you strike me, man.

The stuff that I'm writing and thinking about is tearing at me like a dishrag frayed from repeated scrubbing. When I read your powerful and strong opinions, I feel like there is a Paul Bunyon. A man like a tree. The heartwood. That's how I see you.

--Don



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Thank you for your kind words. I've always been an opinionated SOB, Don. Just ask my wife. Almost 42 years of working for myself as a farmer and 39 years of fighting for proper care for our daughter (adopted and has FASD/bi-polar disorder) has made me pretty thick skinned and fearless. I hated the stupid rules that seem to govern everything LDS to the extent they are there JUST to control the members and by extension, their wallets. So I call a spade a fucking shovel.

Ron Burr



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This was the story of my life. My parents were inactive, thought I needed to be raised with religion. I did in fact become judgmental and try to convert them and married in the temple while they waited outside. The weird part is, they still don't understand why I'm so hostile to the church now that I'm out. My mom thinks it's still a swell place, even though she never sets foot there.



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Church is a mentally unhealthy place to raise a child. You just don't realize it until shit starts happening when you are well down the road

It's a very good article.

One question: is the "ex-Mormon Richard Packman" quoted near the end really our "own" Richard Packham?

Tom in Paris

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> One question: is the "ex-Mormon Richard Packman" quoted near the end really our "own" Richard Packham?

Happens to me all the time.

My online article on this topic is at http://packham.n4m.org/children.htm
"Raising Children As Mormon"



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I don't know. If you live in Utah (or Idaho or any Moridor area) and you know you are going to live there all your life and raise your kids to live in Utah all their lives and surround yourself with mormon friends and mormon neighbors and send them to highly predominant mormon schools, it might be a different situation. They really don't need to learn how to think critically, think for themselves, socialize in normal ways, have responsible relationships outside the normal mormon temple/dating rituals, or learn how to accept others who aren't poured out of the same exact mold you are poured out of. In fact, it could be harder on them to not be church attending morgbots.