Atheists/agnostics, how would you raise your children?

I'm sorry but you have just perfectly shown how bankrupt atheist morality is. I can't believe how anyone would allow their daughter to become a professional whore.

Will you teach your children that homosexuality is OK and if so would you also tell them that incest is OK? If not, what "secular" reason would you give when they as why it's not OK?

What if your teenage girl wanted to become a prostitute, would you give her this enlightened liberal "freedom"? And if not, what reason would you give?

What answer would you give when they ask you where we came from? Where the world came from? And why?

And what would you tell them about death? That we die and that's it? How would you go proving that or even explaining it?

I'm sorry but you have just perfectly shown how bankrupt atheist morality is. I can't believe how anyone would allow their daughter to become a professional whore.

I would raise them as rationalists and utilitarians. I would teach them to have impartial concern for the well-being of all sentient beings, and to aim to minimise suffering as much as possible. I would also stress the importance of questioning everything, including what I teach them.

Will you teach your children that homosexuality is OK and if so would you also tell them that incest is OK? If not, what "secular" reason would you give when they as why it's not OK? Homosexuality is merely one behaviour out of a whole raft of legitimate behaviours that appeal to some and not others. I taught my kids that. It isn't difficult to explain why sex between relatives is a bad idea in sociological and power terms, and a man in the sky is not needed to make it unacceptable.

What if your teenage girl wanted to become a prostitute, would you give her this enlightened liberal "freedom"? And if not, what reason would you give? I had boys but I would have tried hard to prevent this, but would also have been realistic enough to understand that each adult makes her own decisions in life. Again, no deity needed.

What answer would you give when they ask you where we came from? Where the world came from? And why? I had them educated and they are able to make their own minds up on these matters. They agree with me that we don't yet know but almost certainly were not created by a deity.

And what would you tell them about death? That we die and that's it? How would you go proving that or even explaining it? We die; we rot; the end. I cannot prove it (and did not try) but it follows all credible evidence.

*the use of choose is not meant to be offensive

Why would it be?

Some people like to nitpick in this section, better safe than sorry I thought

utilitarianism in all contexts? or just personal contexts? because obviously there's the point to make that utilitarianism can encourage unfair violence just to make people more happy when they don't necessarily deserve more happiness, right? i.e. theft against somebody who earned everything they have to give to thieves who would feel more happiness than the other person

With the majority of the world still religious, I've become interested in secular parenting. A friend sent me a pdf of a book called Parenting Beyond Belief and I've just started reading it to get ideas on what atheists or secularists teach their children seeing as religion still has a foothold on family values.

So TSR atheists and agnostics, what are your ideas on raising children without religion? What values would you teach them? Would you actively tell them that there is no god or that religion is hogwash or would you try to let them decide for themselves? Is there room for any sort of spirituality that you can teach them? And how would you feel if your children later became religious?