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How do interfaith couples decide which faith their children should adopt? “We both wanted to keep our own religions and our own identity for ourselves, so we knew from the beginning that we didn\u2019t want our children to be just one of our faiths,” says Amy Schombs, who is Jewish and whose husband is Catholic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do interfaith couples decide which faith their children should adopt? “We both wanted to keep our own religions and our own identity for ourselves, so we knew from the beginning that we didn\u2019t want our children to be just one of our faiths,” says Amy Schombs, who is Jewish and whose husband is a Christian. 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