Usually a child moves out when reaching adulthood and can make their own decisions. What do they do?
Your vegan children
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Are you asking if children of long-term vegan VVers have stayed vegan after moving out?
Or are you asking if hypothetical children of vegans will stay vegan when they move out?
It could go either way, obviously. A lot depends on the parents and their ability to get the message across, but ultimately the offspring has "free will", if you believe in that sort of thing.
Or are you asking if hypothetical children of vegans will stay vegan when they move out?
It could go either way, obviously. A lot depends on the parents and their ability to get the message across, but ultimately the offspring has "free will", if you believe in that sort of thing.
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I was a vegetarian when I had my daughter and raised her as one. She is 30 now and has remained a vegetarian and is working on becoming a vegan. I think she only has the occasional piece of pizza with real cheese now.
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We were omnis until the kids were 9 and 13 years old, but I will tell you what happened here.
The 9 is now 21 and still vegan (he began the whole thing), and the 13 is now 25 and omni. She never went vegetarian, but I have a feeling she and her boyfriend are leaning that way by some recent questions they have asked.
The 9 is now 21 and still vegan (he began the whole thing), and the 13 is now 25 and omni. She never went vegetarian, but I have a feeling she and her boyfriend are leaning that way by some recent questions they have asked.
It is probably something that we will only know in about 10 or 20 years time as by then veganism would be more mainstream so you would think more vegan children will want to stick with it, well hopefully anyway. I hope it isn't like religious views as many kids seem to discard their parent's views in adulthood.
Two sets of vegan parents I've met raised their children as vegetarian until about 5 years old as they were concerned that the kid wouldn't have the B12 stores in their body that an adult would have but I don't know if that would make it more likely that the child would go back to eating dairy when they grew up.
Two sets of vegan parents I've met raised their children as vegetarian until about 5 years old as they were concerned that the kid wouldn't have the B12 stores in their body that an adult would have but I don't know if that would make it more likely that the child would go back to eating dairy when they grew up.
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it might be horrible being brought up as a vegan, never making the choice yourself. When you grow up, what do you do? You might not want to eat animal products, but you never made the choice, or maybe made the commitment. Would one eat a hamburger just to try to see if you can make an actual choice. Maybe they wouldn't want to eat a hamburger, or cheese or egg....but it was never really a choice.
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The same as with smoking, alchohol, drugs, stealing, gratuitous violence, using hamsters as sex toys, etc, Blobbers.
You're either gratefull to your parents for bringing you up right or you can opt to undo their good work and become a stupid arse.
You would think some kids would rebel when they get to the teenage phase. I've noticed that most vegans I've known online/ met seem like they aren't that bothered about fitting in but there is no guarantee that their kids would be the same type of people.
ETA I think it could be hard being the only vegan kid at school.
Blobbenstein
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did you make the choice to be a vegan, CG?
I remember someone joined VB, who was raised as a veg*n....he never made the choice, and didn't see how he cold make the choice....I don't think he really wanted to eat meat.
I remember someone joined VB, who was raised as a veg*n....he never made the choice, and didn't see how he cold make the choice....I don't think he really wanted to eat meat.
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Blobbenstein
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don't/didn't you find the decision to become a veg*n empowering?
Maybe it is a bit like the Adam and Eve story...God said don't eat the apple, but cunningly didn't give them a reason.....then they ate the apple...and look what happened....
If a woman seduced me and then 10months later came back and said 'here's your kid, you bring it up!'....I would bring it up on vegan food, most likely, and talk about the animal industry, but I wouldn't say they had to be vegan....they could eat what ever they wanted at parties etc, and make their own choice..
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I would think at some point, one or both parents raising children as vegan would sit down and explain to them WHY they were being raised vegan, presumably after the kids started asking questions and complaining about not being allowed to eat McDonald's hamburgers or a cheese pizza with their friends. Kids generally want to fit in, but if they understand why mommy and daddy don't want them to eat meat, perhaps they'll be okay with being "outsiders", and then once they leave home they have the choice to stay vegan or not, and, armed with the knowledge of what their diet means, they may decide to stay vegan.
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Same thing if it was a crack cocaine party or a 'let's go out and mug old ladies' party, Blobbers?
Would you be teaching the kiddie that we don't stick needles in puppy eyes at home but it's fine out of the house if all the other kids are doing it?
How about when the kiddies older and the other boys are raping the drunk girl at the party; "Join in son, if the other boys are doing it then it can't be wrong"?
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'Disappointing' would be the word, Blobbers.
I was promised that going vegan would give me the power to see through ladies clothing.
All I got was a bit of an upgrade to my existing ability to sniff out BS instead.
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My parents brought me up TO respect others, have manners and work hard. They also brought me up NOT to attack old ladies for their pension , take drugs or sleep with anyone that asked me to.
The way they had brought me up did not make me do the first or preclude me from doing the second.
I had a free choice when I left home. But it was an informed choice built on frequent confirmation of the rights and wrongs of both and the consequences of doing or not doing either. My decision to continue to live as I had lived at home was an informed choice.
My only regret is that they did NOT choose to bring me up as a Vegan and supply me with the same information about meat eating.
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Blobbenstein
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so you didn't feel empowered. What did you feel?
Or did you indeed feel disappointed that you could no longer eat egg and cheese and be consistent with your beliefs, which is sort of what went through my feelings at the time,.
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