At least that's what we try to do. Most of the time. So it strikes me as a great tragedy that many Quaker families, mired in permissiveness, can't seem to rouse their children on First-day mornings and get them to meeting. In our family, it has never been a struggle, because before the age of 17, it was never within the realm of imagination that Kate or Drew would not attend meeting on First day, even just once. Family culture is so important.
Church congregations are so important.
I see lots of parents whose job is taking all their life force. The kids are left to fend for themselves. One of the great errors made by us liberals is that we liberated ourselves from the restrictions of social structure, community structure, and family structure. We were encouraged to focus a lot of energy on the self. It was a commercial project, the construction of the consumer.