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How to Talk to Your Kids About Religion When You’re an Atheist
Earlier this year, Wendy Thomas Russell wrote a book about raising children without religion called Relax, It’s Just God. She just did a wonderful interview about the topic on PBS NewsHour.What a great...
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How Should You Raise Your Kids When You Find Value in Religion but Don’t...
There have been a number of books published over the past few years about how atheist parents should raise children.But most of the demographic trends indicate a rise in people who are simply...
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A New Book Explores How the Religious “Nones” Are Raising Their Children
As the demographics of the U.S. shift away from organized religion, it brings up a lot of questions about how much religion you should have in your life when you’re not all that religious yourself. If...
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Only a Weird, Cherry-Picked Version of the Data Shows That Religion Is...
Does religion poison everything, as Christopher Hitchens claimed?W. Bradford Wilcox (below), director of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project and a visiting scholar at the American...
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Here’s How My 5-Year-Old Daughter Discovered the Truth About Santa
This is a guest post by James Zimmerman. He’s the author of the book Deliverance at Hand!: The Redemption of a Devout Jehovah’s Witness.…It was supposed to be easy.And during our first venture as...
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Toronto Writer, Raised a Catholic, Wonders If Letting Her Son Grow Up Without...
Two Torontonians, both raised Catholic, decided to let their son grow up without religious dogma. In a short radio essay she wrote and read, Julie Green, the boy's mother, now wonders if she did the...
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Now Available: Christian Mythology for Kids, a Book for Atheist Parents
Last year, author Chrystine Trooien ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for a book introducing Christian mythology to children.That book is now available for anyone who'd like to buy it. I've had a...
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Divorce is Even Harder on the Kids When One Parent is Shunned By the Other’s...
Life is tough for a divorced parent whose ex has joint custody of the kids and a different religious belief. While the parents can agree not to disparage each other in front of the children, God can...
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A New Book Explores How Non-Religious Parents Are Filling the Faith Gap
For years now, Katherine Ozment has been exploring how the ever-growing segment of non-religious parents raise their children. They're not all atheists, but they have to grapple with the Big Questions...
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Why Is Grandma Talking To Her Food? How to Explain Prayer to Children
David McAfee, the author of several books about faith and atheism, has teamed up with writer and illustrator Chuck Harrison for a new project introducing religion to children.The Book of Gods offers an...
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Gibraltar Court Rules That Catholic Mother Can’t Baptize Son Without Atheist...
It's always tough to figure out how to raise a children when the parents are separated and have different religious beliefs. For a couple in Gibraltar, the conflict involved a Roman Catholic mother and...
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My Son Asked Me: Does the President Have to Be Religious?
After hearing multiple references to God during this week's speeches at the Democratic National Convention, my son asked me if being religious was a requirement to be President. I want to tell him...
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The Problem with Grooming Kids Into Your Religious Faith
TheraminTrees shows us that if we treated other subjects the same way we treat religion, indoctrinating our kids into our way of thinking from the moment they're born, it'd rightfully be considered...
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The Quintessential Book of Advice for Atheist Parents Just Got Bigger and Better
Of all the books I've recommended to readers over the years, one that I've kept coming back to -- because it's so reliable, interesting, and useful -- is Dale McGowan's Parenting Beyond Belief: On...
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How I’m Raising My Non-Religious Children in a Religious Community
As a secular family living in the South, this is what we do to help our children adjust.
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A Message to Religious Parents: Don’t Just Teach Your Kids the “Good” Parts...
YouTuber Alex J. O'Connor (a.k.a. CosmicSkeptic) has a response for religious parents who say they only teach their kids the "good bits" of their faith, setting aside the nonsense.
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The Atheist Parent Challenge: Is It Indoctrination If You Steer Your Kids...
If I, as an atheist, raise a kid who becomes religious, have I failed as a parent or succeeded as one who raised a young woman capable of independent thought?
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Reza Aslan and Jessica Jackley Describe How They Make Their Interfaith...
In a recent TEDx talk, Reza Aslan and Jessica Jackley discussed how marriages between people of different religious beliefs (including atheists) are happening more often, how and why they can work, and...
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What Would You Tell This Young Atheist Getting Bullied By Her Christian Friend?
Theresa Edwards' daughter just finished fourth grade and she learned an important lesson this year: Be careful when coming out as an atheist. Your close friend might use that information against you.
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Here’s How Atheist Parents Raise Their Children
Aren't atheist parents just indoctrinating kids into their NON-religion?That's one of the questions these parents answer in this excellent video.
View ArticleA Slate Columnist Gave Awful Advice to These Well-Meaning Atheist Parents
The atheist parents wanted to know how to teach their kids about God without bashing religious people. They deserved a better response than this.
View ArticleChristian Writer: You Need Jesus If You Want to Be a Better Mother
If there's one lesson mothers learn by painful experience, it's this: there is no single correct way to parent. Anyone who suggests otherwise is lying.
View ArticleHow to Discipline Your Children Without Religion
What do you do when God, Hell, and Bible-based physical abuse are out of the picture? Turns out there are secular ways to raise wonderful kids.
View ArticleWatch This Film About Moms Who, Unlike Gwyneth Paltrow, Are Committed to Science
New parents are inundated with irrational advice, but these moms are sticking to science and reason.
View ArticleAs Non-Religious Numbers Grow, More Parents Are Raising Kids Without Religion
You don't need religion to teach ethics and morality. Atheist parents understand that.
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