Would a Jehovah's Witness give up seeing the grandchildren because their parents do not agree with the beliefs the grandparent is teaching them?

Answer 1

This is a difficult question. The Watch Tower Society discourages non-essential contact with non-members, but generally accepts family ties to non-members. Witnesses do not separate themselves completely from the outside environment, as members of some, more exclusive Christian sects do. They live alongside non-members, send their children to state schools, hold jobs in secular environments and even live with non-members. However, I think it would be wrong for the grandparent to interfere in the upbringing and religious training of her grandchildren. The children's parents, for their part, are right to be concerned if the grandparents are not willing to accept that the children are being brought up in a different faith to that of the grandparents.