Going to church "for the Children"

[I have done several religious posts lately, and just want to state, for the record, that I don't hate the religious... just the bloated, bigoted, and brainwashing  institutions they choose to be part of.]

I don't have kids and don't plan on that ever changing, so maybe that makes me painfully unaware of something in this particular situation... but what makes perfectly fine parents turn to the church to help raise a child when they never attended of their own volition?

There has to be something behind it, because I see it happening all too often now that friends and family are adding to the population.

Misconceptions About Disbelief

I may be wrong about this (which probably isn't a great way to start a blog), but one of the biggest fundamental misconceptions about agnostics and/or atheists, in my experience, is that they have chosen to believe there is no higher being as if they have/had no desire to believe in something beyond themselves or this world, and thus flippantly decided they must not need god. It's a misconception that my father, several relatives, and many of my friends hold without much thought.

And, while that may hold true for some, I find it very hard to believe it's true for anywhere near the majority of freethinkers. In fact, most people I've talked to have admitted that the desire to reach out for something beyond this realm is an almost innate thing to do; no doubt due to where, how, and by whom they were raised. But that just makes it all the more difficult to walk away from.