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When Your Child Wants to Change Their Religious Practice

My daughter wants to remove her hijab for her senior year photos because she says it makes her look different from her friends and I don't know if I should fight her on this.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The tension between honoring your child's autonomy and preserving religious identity reveals the complex intersection of faith, culture, and adolescent development.

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