Been thinking about this topic for a few days. I remember someone telling me that a baby a person from the second it is born. What it is not is a cute accessory nor a possession.
Childless expert again, so please forgive my 2 cents;
Seems to me that a parent does not have right to choose a child’s life beliefs, religious, political or ethical. By all means teach one’s own world view. Ideally, a child should be slowly exposed to a range of different beliefs and values. The aim being that the child would eventually choose its own beliefs and values. I have no idea how practical that is. I can see what a burden that would put on parents.
I try to avoid moral absolutes, unlike my dogmatic father and the Church. I have also met adult children produced by hippies who are complete straight arrows; 9 to 5 jobs, devout Christians , politically and socially conservative–Perhaps a great deciding factor might be the type of relationship children have with their parents; IE if troubled, abusive and unhappy, a child might well reject everything seen as part of parents beliefs and values.–having reached the not unreasonable conclusion that parental values didn’t stop them from being arseholes