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    What are the religious rights of children (on the national scale, mostly, but any court or legal decisions specific to New York would also be useful)?

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    In relation to....?

    School? The public square? The family?

    That's a pretty vague question.

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    Sorry for the vagueness....I'm not sure myself (its part of an assignment). However, I think that it is mostly referring to their rights at home, with regards to their family. Most any information on the topic would be useful, though.

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    Sorry for the vagueness....I'm not sure myself (its part of an assignment). However, I think that it is mostly referring to their rights at home, with regards to their family. Most any information on the topic would be useful, though.
    Please tell us why we should do your homework for you?? Look it up yourself...That is how YOU will actually learn!

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    You are correct, Babystategirl, that I should look it up for myself. I'll admit that. However, I have tried to find some good information elsewhere, and came up with very little. I'm just asking if someone could just direct me to a good source.

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    We get to sit at home and listen to the parents telling us to go to church/synagogue/temple or whatever, even if we don't believe, they can force us to go to the religious services.

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    Just opinion here, but ultimately children have the same religious rights as adults, it is their liberty to exercise those rights independently that is severely limited by due process, as the law recognizes almost total parental control. Children can be forced by parents to attend religious schools, churches, etc or conversely not attend against their will, even if they are not mainstream recognized churches(think David Koresh/Waco). Children have even died as parents "exercised their religious rights" by withholding medical treatment from their children. Courts vary as to how they view all the varying cases.

    Certainly the state has an interest in cases of physical and mental abuse, but rarely does it exercise this interest in children who are subject to what many of us might consider mental abuse at the hands of religious fanatics and zealots. Children can sue for emancipation or self-emancipate, but it's pretty rare, and the younger they are the more difficult this obviously is. Here's a link with a New York case that may help:

    http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_art...ation_laws.htm

    Dig a little harder and you'll find lots of info.

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