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How to handle adult children who reject cultural traditions

My son is eighteen and refuses to participate in any of our cultural practices and I worry I have failed as a mother to pass on what matters most.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

When the next generation turns away from ancestral ways, parents must confront both personal failure and the limits of cultural transmission.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous coming-of-age traditions?”

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