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When parents and teens clash over responsibility and independence

My teenage daughter and I keep having the same fight about her choices and I realized we're actually arguing about two completely different ideas of what it means to be responsible for your own life. Neither of us is saying what we really think about freedom and growing up.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent and child are discovering their unexamined assumptions about autonomy and moral development through conflict rather than dialogue.

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