Spiritual warfare is never more evident upon a family than in divorce. What most people do not realize, furthermore, is that faith conflicts increase in divorce. The Reyes family is discovering exactly that, and their three year old daughter is caught in the middle of their conflict.
This case is true spiritual warfare over religious conflict in custody orders. When families dissolve, kids are damaged – and often irreparably. Professor Kohm spoke with CBN News today on how a little girl in Illinois is caught in the middle of her parents’ divorce fight.
Rather than place the child in the middle of the fight, parents would do better to spare their child from the incredible warfare surrounding the dissolution of the family.
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In reading this article, it seems as though the Dad actually got in trouble for violating the terms of this temporary restraining order. As a parent I hope I'd do the same thing. I question the legal basas the judge found for issuing the order in the first place, however. The article said the the father was forbidden by the judge from exposing his daughter to any religion other than the Jewish religion during his visitation. This seems to be something which the Judge has not business involving himself in.
ReplyDeleteAs the article seems to indicate that when an inter-faith divorce actually occurs then can be a lot negative fallout.
ReplyDeleteBut, does inter-faith conflict actually increase divorce? Simply looking at the statistics of say Both Quebec and Newfoundland I would gather not.
Quebec has a very high divorce rate of 48% ( http://www.cbc.ca/Canada/story/2004/05/04/divorce040504.html and http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2241590 ) compared to Newfoundland's Divorce rate of 22%. Yet Quebec is particularly relgiously homogeneous with 84% Catholic ( http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/regions/lequebec/religion_que/religion20_an.htm )
Wheras Newfouland is relgiously pluraistic with many different faith groups and presumably more interfaith marriage, yet the more religously pluralistic Province is the one with half the divorce rate of the religioulsy homogeneous one.
( http://www.stats.gov.nl.ca/statistics/Census2001/PDF/REL_Religion.pdf )
P.S. Apologies for the poor spelling, but firefox spellcheck didn't seem to be working.
The first link to the CBC article I posted doesn't work though if you change "Canada" to "canada" non-upper case, then it will work.
ReplyDeleteIf the faith is important to him, why wouldn't he have kept his faith during the marriage by not converting to Jewish. I don't have a child, so I cannot imagine what it would feel like to lose their children as parents. However, I believe the father should have followed the court order regardless of what bases the court found him to be enjoined. Also, personally, I think it is selfish to stick to his own belief and push his child to follow it as the father even after divorce.
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