@angelcake Said How is having a good moral standing not productive?! I intend on raising good helpful polite and active members of soceity. Not heathen brats that run around the streets causing mayhem and being asbo kids. I think thats far better for soceity than having kids believe in nothing. It's a parents responsibility to raise a rounded child that is a good person and all too often people are failing, and considering I think my parents did a good job, I'll follow their example.
It's quite risky to assume that a child who is not religious is more likely to be a social reject and commit crimes. Most of my friends are not religious, and they are perfectly respectful people. I have already mentioned that morality pre-dates religion, and religions largely follow the same moral codes, so they must all get their morality from a common source: natural human morality. Religion is not required at all in a child's uprbringing in order for them to be well-behaved. In fact, it makes little difference at all; think about strict muslim or buddhist societies in east Asia, where there is still far more crime and deviance than in other societies simply because of socio-economic factors which completely override the religious culture. In contrast, Britain is one of the most secular developed countries in the world, yet it is a very safe and stable society compared to most others.
The fact that you want to offer your children alternatives indicates the contrast our secular society has with strict religious cultures, which are the ones I am primarily referring to in this topic.