not going to get into it much, just one thought i want to post...Personally I think religion helps children deal with Deaths of loved ones, much more comforting to think that loved ones have gone someplace good instead of thinking that loved ones no longer exist and their corpses are rotting and being eaten by worms. My stepson never really learned about religion as a youngin, and after his Grandmother died.. he got some mental damage from that, and sometimes I wonder if he would have been better off had he a education in religion. Actually had a conversation with a psychiatrist about this and he seemed to agree with the idea I was having.