Anonymous 2 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > put the child on morg records!?? Also wouldn't the > morg go after them for the child to be baptized > around age 8!??
I may be wrong on this (I am a nevermo), but my understanding is: Yes, and yes.
Even if the church didn't go after the kid at age eight, the kid's grandparents, who pushed and pushed and pushed for the name blessing, would do all they could to see to it that the kid was baptized.
My wife is NOM and took our kids to church. They were not blessed and just attended as "children of no record."
When our oldest turned 8 she noticed that all her friends were getting baptized. She begged me to let her get baptized. I said she could make that decision for herself when she was 18.
By the time she was 18 she wanted nothing to do with the Mormon Church.
When the oldest was around 10 or 11 missionaries started showing up at our door. They would ask about our kids. I found out that since they are a year or two past the age of 8 then if the mishies baptized they it would count on their score-card as a "convert baptism." Once a couple of mishies came over and asked if I'd like them to teach "morality" to my children. You can guess how that went over.
Then they stopped showing up.
Since none of our kids were baptized, they could attend BYU without having to be active Mormons. If they had been baptized and then "fallen away," they would not be allowed into BYU. So by not having them baptized I've increased their choices of a university ;)