Children adopt beliefs backed by adults’ credible displays of devotion.

Evidence

Baroness Hale also made a point about consent that goes deeper than the specific facts of the case. Religious conviction is, by nature, an individual matter. Adults form their religious convictions through a process that involves choice, reasoning, experience, and commitment. Children raised in a religious tradition have not independently formed the convictions of that tradition — they are being raised in it. The question of whether a child’s religious tradition requires corporal punishment is not the child’s question to answer; it is the parents’ question, and the parents’ answer cannot be binding on the child in a way that requires the child to suffer physical punishment. — , The Rod and the Child, 9369 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Credible religious commitment can be signaled by hard-to-fake involuntary displays; Children have not independently formed their parents’ religious convictions. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 9369; Religious-right strategists target children aged four to fourteen for indoctrination — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 989 (+1 more)

Related

• Children have not independently formed their parents’ religious convictions. (similarity 0.91)
• Scholars dispute whether a four-year-old could genuinely experience religious conversion (similarity 0.82)
• Parental religious conviction does not override children’s bodily autonomy. (similarity 0.79)
• Religious right childrearing doctrine frames infants as rebels needing force (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Credible religious commitment can be signaled by hard-to-fake involuntary displays #expands (0.75)
• Children have not independently formed their parents’ religious convictions. #expands (0.72) — , The Rod and the Child, 9369