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When family members disagree on how to handle teenage substance use

My sister and I are both dealing with our teenage kids experimenting with substances, but she wants to come down hard with rules and consequences while I want to focus on communication and harm reduction, and our kids are starting to play our different approaches against each other.

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Two people are letting their different fears about the same children drive them apart instead of together.

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