Title: Religion and children - Wikipedia
Headings: Religion and children
Religion and children
Contents
Rites of passage
Education
Religious education
Prayer in school
Teaching evolution
Display of religious symbols
Religious indoctrination of children
Child marriage
Health effects
Medical care
Religion as a by-product of children's attributes
See also
Notes
References
External links

Content: Islamic religious schools are known in English by the Arabic loanword Madrasah . Prayer in school
Main article: School prayer
Religion may have an influence on what goes on in state schools. For example, in the UK the Education Act 1944 introduced the requirement for daily prayers in all state-funded schools, but later acts changed this requirement to a daily "collective act of worship", the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 being the most recent. This also requires such acts of worship to be "wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character". The term "mainly" means that acts related to other faiths can be carried out providing the majority are Christian. Teaching evolution
Main article: Creation and evolution in public education
The creation–evolution controversy, especially the status of creation and evolution in public education, is a debate over teaching children the origin and evolution of life, mostly in conservative regions of the United States. However, evolution is accepted by the Catholic Church and is a part of the Catholic Catechism. Display of religious symbols
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