“There is still another kind of dishonoring parents, much more dangerous and subtle than this first, a [dishonoring] which decks itself out and lets itself be regarded as a true honoring of parents. That is when a child has its own way and the parents allow it to do so out of natural love. In this case they honor one another and love one another. On all sides it is a precious thing; the mother and father are pleased and the child is pleased.
This plague is so common.....” ML, Treatise on Good Works, LW, AE, 44:82
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