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When your children reject ancestral mourning practices

My daughter wants nothing to do with our traditions and when my mother died she refused to participate in the burial customs and I don't know if I failed them both somehow.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The breaking of cultural transmission feels like a second death, raising questions about legacy that pierce deeper than personal loss.

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