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When parents disagree on how to guide children's spiritual development

My teenage daughter is asking deep questions about whether God exists and what happens after death and my husband thinks I'm undermining her faith by not giving her clear answers, but I want her to find her own truth and we're fighting about this constantly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two approaches to nurturing young faith - protective certainty versus encouraging doubt - create parental conflict over what serves the child best.

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