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A little more than a third of Catholic parents say it is extremely or very important for their children to grow up to have religious beliefs similar to their own, according to a recent Pew Research Center report. In the study released last month and expounded further in a February 6 article, 35% of Catholic parents with children under 18 said it is extremely or very important for their children to grow up to share their religious beliefs. A crucial note to the study is that parents who attend services weekly or more were more than three times as likely to say having their children share their beliefs is important, 76% versus 21%, Pew said. In total, 65% of Catholics said it was either extremely, very, or somewhat important for their children to hold their Catholic beliefs as adults. Thirty-four percent of Catholics said it was not too important or not important at all. Hispanic Catholics answered with slightly more enthusiasm with 39% saying it was extremely or very important that their children grow up to share their religious beliefs, while white and non-Hispanic Catholics registered at 29%. Catholics recorded among the lowest enthusiasm for passing their religion to their children of any Christian denomination in the survey. An even lower 29% of white non-evangelical Protestants said it is extremely or very important for their children to share their religious beliefs.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253602/1-in-3-catholic-parents-strongly-believe-their-children-should-be-catholic-survey-finds
Today, the Church celebrates Saint Scholastica, a nun who was the twin sister of Saint Benedict, the "father of monasticism" in Western Europe. The siblings were born around 480 to a Roman noble family in Nursia, Italy. Scholastica seems to have devoted herself to God from her earliest youth, as the account of Benedict's life by Pope Gregory the Great mentions that his sister was "dedicated from her infancy to Our Lord."
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-scholastica-143