My brother and I inherited our grandfather's racist jokes and casual comments about other groups, and we kept making them with each other out of habit until my brother's biracial daughter was old enough to understand. Now we're both horrified at what we almost passed down without thinking.
More people experience this than they realize.
The casual cruelties we inherit can live unexamined until we risk passing them to the next generation.
“Where Are You with Unintended legacy — what we leave without meaning to?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.