No, but I'm in a different position from most parents. I don't have a partner and technically my daughter doesn't have a dad. I've been divorced for about 25 years and I adopted her a couple of years ago. No husband = no dad. Those with a partner would have a much more difficult time.

Absolutely not! I'll teach my kid to swim on his own.

Sure, it's just a meaningless ceremony. I did it myself to shut my mother up.

Yes, I just go with the Flow... ain't important to me and I will let them know how little I think of the sacrament.

Fuck that

Yeah. it won't hurt anything.

It's not that big of a deal to me. It's not hurting anyone.

Nope. I lived it my whole childhood and vowed to never subject my children to it. I can also not just go along to pacify other family members. To me it condones it and opens the door for them to be relentless in trying to "save" me.

If it was important to my partner, then that would be compelling. Important to extended family, probably not. I imagine everyone's situation is different. If it's really important to them, they will probably do some under the sink baptism when you let them baby-sit. I'm pretty sure my mom did something like that with at least my oldest.

Why did Christ get baptized if he was born without sin? The fuckin' Bible has to make sense. Gets my mad.

No, they would know ahead of time how I'm raising my child.