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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents let us decide for ourselves whether we wanted to go to church as soon as we were old enough to stay home alone if we wanted, so like 10ish.  Verdict: one non-religious adult child, one who consistently attends church with her two small children.  I think this solution makes the most sense — your relationship with God isn’t dependent on being in church every Sunday in my view (I’m the religious adult child as you may have guessed).

Asking parents to forgo their pre-existing engagement so the child can do sports is a manners issue, however.  Can you guess compromise on that?  Carpool so you don’t have to miss every Sunday, and when he has games attend a different service than you usually would?[/quote]

It's not preexisting arrangements.  Parents can go at a different time or church.[/quote]

I would guess that the parents have had a longer connection with the church, than the kid has had with the sports team.

Church is a primary source of social connection, and emotional support, for many adults.  Asking a parent to give that up isn't reasonable. Telling a teenager that they do not have to attend services, but they need to arrange their own rides, or fund their own ubers, seems like a reasonable compromise.[/quote]

This is accurate. For reasons I won't elaborate on, it's very complicated for us to miss but we have here and there...

We've also attended the other service later in the afternoon but it often conflicts with our DDs activity that has already been arranged so she would not miss Sunday morning services.

DCs coach will take his side on the issue even though we discussed with both the coach and DC ahead of time that he may need to miss some games when they conflict with church. We feel like there's been a bait and switch once the season started by both DC and his coach. I don't want to take away anything DC loves, so I am trying to figure it out. [/quote]

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