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When your partner rejects cultural rituals for your child

I want to do a naming ceremony for my newborn daughter but my husband thinks it is outdated and expensive and I feel like I am fighting for her spiritual identity alone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The preservation of ancestral practices becomes a battleground when one parent values tradition and the other sees only burden.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with African communal parenting traditions?”

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