I coined the phrase "spiritual child abuse" when working with several families. Children should have the OPTION of listening and/or attending to parents' and others' belief systems.

It isn't just religion being forced on a child, it is any kind of delusion, whether flat earth, anti vaxing, or whatever. It is important to teach children to be ethical, have courage, think for themselves, be kind, and know everyone makes mistakes.

It is all the name of dumbing down.

That is not how religion works. If you have your child baptized you are essentially committing yourself to brainwash your child into following your beliefs which your parents parents had probably done at the time they baptized your parents.
I was lucky, my Mom was a Brethren, who are Anabaptist like te Amish and Mennonites, who don’t baptize children. You must choose baptism into the faith as an adult. My Dad was raised Methodist, but I believe at heart he was an Agnostic, so he differed to her belief and neither me nor my sister were baptized. Mom occasionally now voices regret for that decision since both of us are Atheists and will not be meeting her in heaven .

Child abuse 100%

I was as lucky as you were. My father grew up in a Methodist family and my mother in a Catholic, but they did not practice the religion, nor they forced it to us. I went to a Scottish Presbyterian school and I obviously went to the Sunday school and daily 'Scripture Union' but no pressure from home, it was my own choice. Then around seventeen I quickly started growing apart from anything religious and became an ardent atheist.