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When couples disagree about their child's social justice ambitions

My husband and I are fighting about our teenage daughter's college plans because she wants to take a gap year to work on inequality issues but he thinks that's a luxury we can afford that other families can't and therefore irresponsible. I think he's right about the privilege part but wrong about what that means we should do and our daughter is caught in the middle.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Privilege creates both opportunity and obligation, but parents can disagree about which matters more for their child's moral development.

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