ON PARENTS' RIGHT TO A RELIGIOUS UPBRINGING UNDER THE LAW OF THE USA 

Andreeva Leonila Sergeevna,  Postgraduate student, Penza State University, shelevyn4ik@inbox.ru

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The article considers the implementation of the rights of parents on religious education by the example of individual cases from judicial practice of the United States. The American experience is of specific interest due to increased relevance of the problem caused by increasing number of interfaith marriages and religious activity and religious identity in the Russian Federation.

religious education; actual or substantial harm; risk of harm infliction, standard not requiring proof of actual or prospective harm infliction; general welfare of a child.