[Lorianne]

I reach that conclusion by knowing many women who were raised Catholic who are not raising their children Catholic. Ask your parish priest about the phenomenon, I'm sure it's not an unfamiliar one to him.

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

Every Catholic girl I was raised with (fairly small close knit community) that has chidlren are raising them in a more devout conservative manner than we were raised. In addition, I have several friends who married Catholic men, though they are not Catholic themselves, who are raising their children Catholic....we must hang around in very different crowds.

[Desdemona]

I reach that conclusion by knowing many women who were raised Catholic who are not raising their children Catholic. Ask your parish priest about the phenomenon, I'm sure it's not an unfamiliar one to him.

I cannot name one. In fact, I know a whole lot of people who came home to the church once they had kids and their kids are being raised far more strictly than we ever were.

At least that's what's going on in my neck of the woods.

[It's me]

I reach that conclusion by knowing many women who were raised Catholic who are not raising their children Catholic.

They apparently do not know the Catholic Faith. That's so sad, really.

[IrishRainy]

Any "Catholic" woman who would NOT raise their child Catholic is not a true Catholic in the first place. And I would bet $$ they weren't married in the Church, either.

When I married my non-Catholic husband more than 20 years ago, we had to sign a document stating that WE would raise our children Catholic. We kept our promise, BTW, and he even converted to catholicism in 1995!