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By revelation the Lord had designated eight years as the age at which children may be properly baptized into the Church; and parents are required to prepare their children for the ordinances of the Church by teaching them the doctrines of faith, repentance, baptism, and the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost. Failure in this requirement is accounted by the Lord as a sin resting upon the heads of the parents.
Source: Talmage, James E. Articles of Faith, 6th ed. Salt Lake City, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1968. Chapter 6, 125.