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When teenagers choose religious practices their families don't share

My teenage daughter started wearing a hijab even though we're not practicing Muslims and my mother is upset about it while my wife thinks we should support whatever feels meaningful to her. We're all walking on eggshells and I realize we've never actually talked as a family about how we approach faith and religious expression.

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Three generations are discovering they have fundamentally different assumptions about religious freedom and family identity.

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