Having finished the 100+ page recent OU study on Attrition and Connection in American Orthodox Judaism I curious if any currently Orthodox children of Baalei Teshuvah can share things their parents did or factors that contributed to them staying frum? This is just an informal question for my own curiosity.
In 2011 there was a study about Teens at Risk and BT parents and some of the findings almost mirrored those in the OU study:
1) Results showed parents report an adolescent of a baal teshuva family who is poorly integrated in the community will be at greater risk for behavioral difficulties.
2) Results showed that those adolescents of parents who exhibit rigid or chaotic (unhealthy) parenting style are reported by their parents as exhibiting higher levels of behavioral and emotional difficulties than adolescents whose parents exhibit an authoritative (healthy) parenting style, a balance of love and limits.
3) Results showed that adolescents of families that are either disengaged or enmeshed (unhealthy family structure) are reported by parents to exhibit higher levels of behavioral and emotional difficulties than adolescents whose families exhibit a balanced emotional connection (healthy family structure).
4) Results showed that if a parent reported becoming newly religious during his or her twenties or thirties, his or her child was reported as vulnerable for having more difficulties during adolescence.
I’ll comment below with a few things we tried with our kids.
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