Parents inevitably pass on their beliefs to their children, it's difficult to imagine a way of NOT doing so. The important thing is that any society that belives in choice must provide a way by which they can learn to make that choice later in life.

Religions have always attempted to apply (to a geater or lesser extent) emotional pressure on young people not to apostatise- this varies from parental disapproval, through rejection by their birth culture, to in some cases attempted or successful murder.

It must be made clear to the leaders of organised belief systems that any pressure beyond the mildest is unacceptable. How to get that across in the presnt climate of confrontation is another matter.

In that context, I am very grateful to my Catholic parents, who expressed only their personal disapproval and fears for our eternal future, when almost all their offspring opted for a humanist/ atheist belief. It may have comforted them that we have largely retained the ethical and moral framework which they belived derived from religion, and which we believe derives from a rational view of human society.