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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend was never allowed to spend the night growing up because her mother is Cuban and it wasn't a cultural norm there.  This along with other cultural mandates from her mother while growing up have built up years of resentment.  Needless to say, this has not positively impacted their adult relationship.  On a religious note, routinely mandating church and other religious events (which also were a part of their Cuban culture) also failed to be passed on.  My friend married and atheist and they are not planning on raising their children Catholic.

Obviously, parents have to make the best decisions with the information available.  However, I think it is important to note that they can have negative long term repercussions if parents fail to involve their childrens feelings and desires and subscribe to only their "cultural values".[/quote]

The mother of my BFF growing up was Cuban.  We switched off Saturday nights for years--sleepovers at her house/my house.  There were plenty of cultural mandates (I went to Mass with them all the time, but I'm Protestant, for instance).  Her mother did it because she liked the sleepovers from her youth, which we talked about.  Interesting.  Guess they must have been cousins...?[/quote]

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