That's one perspective. I take the Habermasian perspective, mixed with a little meme theory (Dawkins' stuff, not adviceanimals). Imagine that individuals have a sphere of awareness that could be thought of as a 4 dimensional phenomenological field across time and space variables with a corresponding network of communication induced symbolic processes and superimposed egos (literally selves) in the fabric of associated experience. These create behavioral practices at both a physical and symbolic interactional level manifesting distributed value calculations and substantiating social and material orders of reality. In this field memes, literally idea organisms, engage in a conflict ridden power struggle competing for experiential expression in and through the individual and collective cognitions of society and the species being output of cause and effect.

In example, the more a parent fills a child with their religion and calculate away the potential suppression of whole categories of thought, experience and critical self-awareness and the associated risks and harms, the more their lifeworld, behavior and identity are promoted and reified in the mind of a child. That way even in rejection the lifeworld and order of religious ideas has been implanted and thereby culturally transmitted through a new generation. The meme complex of a religion makes the parent feel certain rewarding ways on seeing their child obey the same cultural programming, they put pressure on a child to act a certain way and they restrict the information their children see it sees its reproduction and reenactment (as structured by the meme) within a broader and propagating field of phenomena. This provides a sense of security, accomplishment and satisfaction in the parents experience, as well as in their interactions and perceived judgements of their peers that the parents are willing to fail to rationally consider the real best interest of their children. It also allows them to put aside their compassion. No excuse really for such a maltreatment.