I would like some insight from the Atheists of DU:

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I would appreciate any insight you have to offer.
First some background and I hope I can explain myself clearly:
I am a liberal Christian who homeschools. I have been doing a comparitive religion study with my children. We study other faith beliefs and writings. The goal or purpose (if you will) is for my children to develop a respect and understanding of other belief systems. Then it occurred to me that I have never really covered Atheism. Its been mentioned but we've never spent anytime discussing Atheism or Agnosticism. I can't help feeling that this sends an indirect message to my kids that Atheism is not a valid choice. Do you find this invalidation to be the case much of the time? What other insights would you offer? Thank you so much.