Many parents think that it is there responsibility to teach the tenets of their religion to their children from the earliest possible age. This would amount to indoctrination or propaganda, none of which do any good for the child.
All people eventually reach an age when they are accountable for their own beliefs.
Your children will go out into the world and weigh what you ve taught them against what they perceive reality and truth to be, and they will make their own religious decisions from then on. However, if he decides to join another religion he is able to do that no amount of teaching can prevent someone from making up their mind on their own. It s been said that if a parent doesn t teach his child, someone else will. Further, in most religions it is your responsibility as a parent to teach your child in that particular faith. Teaching your children religion at an early age, then, fulfills both religious requirements and also the parental desire to pass on one s own beliefs rather than have someone else attempt to teach the child a possibly conflicting religion or morality.