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Why teens reject parents' environmental health choices

My teenage daughter refuses to use the natural deodorant I buy and insists on the conventional kind and I feel like I am failing to teach her to value her health.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The collision between parental environmental values and adolescent autonomy reveals the limits of protection-through-control.

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