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How to defend your generation when your child sees through your failures

My 12-year-old asked me if adults actually care about kids since we're not stopping climate change and I didn't know what to say.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Children's moral clarity about adult failures forces parents to confront their own complicity and inadequacy.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Intergenerational justice — what we owe the future?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.