My son is 14 and lives mostly with his Dad since my recent separation. Ex recently told me that DS has been exploring his faith and that my ex and his mother are going to baptise our son in a Catholic Church. My ex has not attended church in all the time I’ve known him and we had a secular wedding. He’s always been a man of science and there’s never been any mention of religion before. This is all out of the blue. Ex was raised catholic though and attended a Catholic Church.
Does a church need both parents permission to baptise a child? I’m happy for my son to explore his faith, I would never stop him getting baptised, it was more that my ex told me that his mother and himself had decided and that it was happening. He did not ask what I thought or if it was okay to baptise our son.
AIBU in thinking I should have been asked first? Or at age 14 it is our son’s decision without parental consent? I’m happy for him to explore his faith etc. He is currently heavily aligned with his Dad and his Grandmother but that’s a separate issue.
On a separate note, I used to be a pagan as a teenager, our son knows this and now calls me a “dirty pagan” and won’t discuss church with me.