28-5. All non-communing members shall be deemed under the care of the church to which their parents belong, if they live under the parental roof and are minors; otherwise, under that of the church where they reside, or with which they ordinarily worship.

DIGEST : The current PCA text remains unchanged from the founding of the PCA and dates to the first approved PCUS edition, in 1879. PCUS draft editions had "non-communicating" instead of the later "non-communing". The earliest of these drafts was also obviously more extensive.

BACKGROUND AND COMPARISON :
1. PCA 1973, RoD, 2-5, Adopted text, as printed in the Minutes of General Assembly, p. 145
2. Continuing Presbyterian Church 1973, RoD, 2-5, Proposed text, p. 40
3. PCUS 1933, RoD, II-§172
4. PCUS 1925, RoD, II-§172
5. PCUS 1879, Rules of Discipline, II-5
All non-communing members shall be deemed under the care of the church to which their parents belong, if they live under the parental roof and are minors; otherwise, under that of the church where they reside, or with which they ordinarily worship.

PCUS 1869 draft, Canons of Discipline, II-6
All non-communicating members shall be deemed under the government of the Congregation to which their parents belong, if they live under the parental roof and are minors; or otherwise, under that of the congregation where they reside, or with which they ordinarily worship.

PCUS 1867 draft, Canons of Discipline, II-7
In dismissing heads of families from one congregation, to connect themselves with another, the names of their baptized children must be included, and every congregation shall keep a roll of non-communicating as well as of communicating members. All non-communicating members shall be deemed under the government of the congregation to which their parents belong, if they live under the parental roof and are minors; or otherwise, under that of the congregation where they reside, or with which they ordinarily worship.

COMMENTARY :
F.P. Ramsay, Exposition of the Book of Church Order (1898, p. 176), on 2-5:
151.—V. All non-communicating members shall be deemed under the care of the church to which their parents belong, if they live under the parental roof and are minors ; or otherwise, under that of the church where they reside, or with which they ordinarily worship.
When their parents cease to be responsible to the Church (147) for their conduct, they cease to be
under the jurisdiction of their parents' church as such.