Try to remember that sometimes PARENTS do the best they can with what they knew....
I could never disown my children either, I am a heriditary Witch, My daughter goes to church . I respect her beliefs as I do everyones.
Brightest Blessings to ALL.

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If you tell your secrets to the wind... Don't be mad if it tell's the trees.

I've always told my children that there is nothing they can do that would make me not love them. I told them I might be disappointed in them and I might yell at them or nag them, but that I would always love them. I even joked that if they murdered someone I'd sneak them a cake with a file into prinson for them. (Just to illustrate my unconditional love....not encouraging my children to be murderers). I must admit there are MANY things my children could do that would make me unhappy or disappointed, but at least at this point in my life, I can't imagine disowning them or not loving them.

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I know I couldn't do it. I don't know much about J-Witness, but with Amish, it's not so much a "disown" because you do not want to be in the same religion, but a "shunning." And, with Amish, the faith is so embroiled into the entire culture/lifestyle. It's not a Sunday only thing, but enmeshed with how they dress, how they live, what sort of tools they use - everything. So a child choosing not be remain Amish indicates a rejection of the entire lifestyle - not just a rejection of the faith. I guess if they've been brought up knowing the full ramifications of shunning, while it might be hard, it's just accepted.

But someone disowning their kid for marrying someone of another faith & some other minor issue - I don't get that at all.

I don't think it says much for a religion if a parent of that religion dissowns their own child because they choose another path in life. The love a parent has for a child is supposed to be unconditional. I fear that my oldest dd is headed down a long path of self destruction just from the things that have gone on around here in the past month...and like Happymom said about her daughter...there are days that I honestly don't like her. But there is never a day that I don't love her.

I know what you mean!

I'd never do this either. I think the only thing that would make me disown ds would be for him to become a mass murderer and even then I'd try to either get him help or get him locked up so he couldn't hurt himself or anyone else!