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[quote=Anonymous]Depending on why you don't want your son to eat port (health, religious reasons), I'd be mad at your father.  Yes your son is 13 and old enough to say no, but a family member shouldn't put him in the position of choosing to follow rules you have set.  I don't care how minor the rule is.  If your father "forgot," that is one thing to consider though.  I remember an uncle once telling me all the reasons it was better to be an atheist than to be religious.  I come from a very religious family and was 17 at the time.  While I was old enough to know what I believed, I still felt awkward about being in a conversation in which my uncle was essentially telling me my parents were wrong, all the church leaders I respected were wrong, and I was wrong.  And that he knew better.  I wasn't sure how to be polite and respectful to an uncle I loved without contradicting him, and also standing up for my own beliefs and parents.  It was a completely unnecessary conversation, as I recall.  It wasn't as though I'd asked him why he was an atheist, it just came out of the blue.[/quote]

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