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When environmental activism affects your children

My teenage daughter begged me not to get arrested at the fracking protest because she's embarrassed, and I don't know if I'm teaching her courage or traumatizing her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're torn between modeling principled resistance and protecting your child from social and emotional costs.

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“Where Are You with Environmental activism and civil disobedience?”

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