Religious Differences

I think your best bet is to discuss this with your partner now and clear the air. If it's out in the open any problems can be discussed and nutted out. Just because you are both from different sides of the fence does not mean you won't make great parents and be able to make a go of it. Troy and I are very different when it comes to our ideas on raising children however we have managed to muddle throught for the most part and we have now found a happy meduim. You've got to give and take.

Im the same as you, I was brought up to believe "nothing" (my mum was a catholic and dad was a MAJOR atheist) so they let me sit on the fence
My partner was brought up catholic but has sinced dropped the traditional going to church, catholic school (for our daughter) etc... and going to bring her up they way I was...

What type of upbringing did your partner have? Church, Youth groups etc? - you can make some sort of "agreement" that you won't force anything on your child until they are about 6 or so, I know that Public schools have RE (religious education) around christmas time every year so if they come home and ask about Jesus etc and get real involved in it it will be up to them what religion they follow.

Hope this helps a little bit and good luck!!

Thanks guys for your replies, really interesting! We have talked about it, he is quite strong about things like baptism etc, where I am happy for my children to be religious,but not as religious as my partners family, where it is practised as a lifestyle.He comes from a large Pacific Island family where I am NZ European, so culturally we are differnt aswell. We have discussed this alot, and have decided that coming from two upbringings, we would both have to sacrifice things to make it work and maybe have semi-religious? kids if there is such as thing?

My parents were the same, my mum was baptist and my dad catholic so what happened with them was they got married in a bapist church and us children were christened Catholic.
I will have the problem as i think my family will want my baby to be baptisted by my partner will not set foot in a church. It is just something you will have to talk lots about maybe before trying and so its out in the open then.

Well...I was in the same boat as you (well sort of)..I am a Muslim and my hubby is a Hindu. Now we talked about it and we agreed that our children will be more Hindu than a Muslim and yet I will teach them about my religion. When they grow up they can make their own mind up.

When Zaara was born we performed both Hindu and Muslim rituals for her. So the point to all this blah blah is make a decision before you have kids so that there is no confusions/problems after birth.