[Tired of Taxes]

I don't want a "fight". I'm just trying to inject alittle commonsense into all of the hysteria on this forum.

Suppose the tables were turned: Let's say an ATHEIST MOTHER moved away with her daughter, and the CHRISTIAN FATHER followed her to be closer to his child. The Christian father makes child care payments, and, all the while, the atheist mother is fighting him in a custody battle.

Then the Christian father sues to keep his child out of a public school class promoting abortion, for example, saying it violates his daughter's religious beliefs. But the atheist mother disagrees.

Isn't it the father's right, too, to decide what his daughter learns? Of course it is! Fatherhood doesn't stop with the child care payments.

In this case, the mother is insisting the daughter is a "Christian", but the mother isn't the only person who gets to decide how to raise the child. If this mother didn't want her daughter to be raised with an atheistic influence, she should've chosen another man to father her child!

And that is the whole crux of the issue. Both the mother AND father decide how to raise the daughter, whether the general public likes it or not.

[twigs]

In this case, the mother is insisting the daughter is a "Christian", but the mother isn't the only person who gets to decide how to raise the child. If this mother didn't want her daughter to be raised with an atheistic influence, she should've chosen another man to father her child!

What you say is true. This mom will have her hands full, but the sire does have a right to be part of the decisions. He sounds very unstable though and is willing to use his daughter for his own ends. I'm sure this Mom has wished many times that she had found a better father for her child. However, I'm sure that that was not foremost on her mind at the time.

[constitutiongirl]

The fact of the matter is that the man LIED in order to advance his case. What type of man LIES about his child to the court in order to advance his own agenda?

[Marysecretary]

Maybe she became a Christian AFTER she was with him. I agree he should have a vital part in her upbringing, but he's just looking for a reason to line his pockets.