Originally Posted by Newman
I'm not totally sure I understand your question, but I'll take a stab at it. I think the reason you don't see many households baptised anymore, is because its a one-time deal. Once a household is baptised then the only subsequent baptisms in that household would be for the children, individually, as they come into the family. The only time a household could be baptised today is when everyone (adults and children) in the family is unbaptised and the parents both want to receive baptism (for themselves and for their children.) I think this is pretty rare, even today, in the West.

I think it is not as rare as you suppose unless we grant that parents are rarely converted. I would say that almost anytime an adult who was raised in a non-Christian home is converted, the odds are that he/she and his/her family has not been baptized. In some of these cases, I would guess the spouse is converted as well within some period of time of the other's conversion. If you do not limit this to the West, I think this is even more common.

The reason we do not see family baptisms today is not lack of subjects but it is that vast majority of churches no longer practice family baptism (hence, my original post).

John