How do you prevent your sibling or offspring following another religion or none?

[Jai Tegang!]

I think one aspect we may be ignoring is the social structures in our grandparents (the 1947 generation ) and parents (1984 generation). Strong immediate  family ties and strong extended family ties.  Large large families with lots of chachas tayeas bhuas fufars mamas mamis. Several dozen cousins closer than present day siblings. Plus the village pind structure acting like one big family. 

There simply was no room for abandoning sikhi.

I think we need to bring back our big family structure. We all need to contribute ?

The smaller our families. The more isolated and prone to disseention.

[TejS]

1 hour ago, Jai Tegang! said:

I think one aspect we may be ignoring is the social structures in our grandparents (the 1947 generation ) and parents (1984 generation). Strong immediate  family ties and strong extended family ties.  Large large families with lots of chachas tayeas bhuas fufars mamas mamis. Several dozen cousins closer than present day siblings. Plus the village pind structure acting like one big family. 

There simply was no room for abandoning sikhi.

I think we need to bring back our big family structure. We all need to contribute ?

The smaller our families. The more isolated and prone to disseention.

Absolutely agree with this post.

But the problem is that in Western countries, like the US/UK, its hard to have large families living in the same region due to work and financial differences. I think its one thing to be surrounded by fellow Sikhs, but another to be surrounded by family. So its possible to live in a Sikh area in the West, but its very difficult to surround yourself with family. That's why you have Islamic sexual grooming cases happening with Sikh girls so often in the UK.

Also, having plenty of siblings is a must. Not only for Sikh population growth, but also for companions that help/protect/share with you. Children with multiple siblings are far less vulnerable to converting out than a single child for example.