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How to Handle Past Moral Failures When Your Children Ask Direct Questions

My teenage daughter asked me directly if I ever cheated on her father and I said no, but I did have an affair fifteen years ago that ended before she was born.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between protecting our children's sense of security and modeling authentic accountability creates impossible choices.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Moral psychology — how we make ethical decisions?”

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