{"id":352,"date":"2019-03-19T20:28:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T20:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2019-03-19T20:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T20:32:01","slug":"mixed-religious-households","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/mixed-religious-households\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Religious Households"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe width='100%' height='400' frameborder='0' scrolling='yes' src='https:\/\/drive.google.com\/a\/southern.edu\/file\/d\/16CwaZSso3stoRrVHEWdCnqaVo3lvjF08\/preview?usp=drivesdk' allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><em>By Gia Arroyo<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Growing up in a household that is split religiously is never an easy thing. My mother went through a situation like this at home. Although her parents were both Christian, it was still difficult living with a Seventh-day Adventist mom and Pentecostal dad.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wanting to see how common this is, I decided to research it online. According to a Pew Research Center study done in 2016, \u201croughly one-in-five U.S. adults were raised with a mixed religious background.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The research center also discovered that 48 percent of children who grew up in a two-religion household are more likely to follow their mother\u2019s faith.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-354 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-for-class-198x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-for-class-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-for-class.png 421w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-355\" src=\"http:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-two-for-class-300x166.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-two-for-class-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-two-for-class.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While researching this information, I remembered that my roommate, Shirali Pathak and her older sister, Prianca, grew up in a mixed religious household.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>They were raised by a Seventh-day Adventist mother and Hindu father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dad not only wanted us to keep his values, as well as my mom&#8217;s,&#8221; said Shirali.&nbsp; &#8220;We had a choice to make.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>Sabbaths were fun for Shirali. Being able to go to church and enjoy Adventures\/Pathfinders is a memory that she&#8217;s fond of. The majority of her schooling has been in the Adventist education system. Prior to entering college, her father did not mind that she was in an SDA school.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The issues arose when Shirali and Prianca decided to come to Southern.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dad was very against it &#8217;cause he wanted us to be home, and he didn\u2019t understand why we wanted to continue going to an Adventist school,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, supporting Shirali and her sister financially for school has fallen on their mother, she said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> &nbsp;<\/span>Although it is difficult sometimes, when the topic of religion comes up, Shirali remains thankful that her father is understanding and respects her decision of being a Christian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gia Arroyo Growing up in a household that is split religiously is never an easy thing. My mother went through a situation like this at home. Although her parents were both Christian, it was still difficult living with a Seventh-day Adventist mom and Pentecostal dad.&nbsp; Wanting to see how common this is, I decided &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/mixed-religious-households\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mixed Religious Households&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}