It is surely a very unfortunate case when the parents and children differ on some grave issues of life such as marriage, but the best way is not to flout each other's opinion nor to discuss it in a charged atmosphere but rather try to settle it in an amicable way. (From a letter dated 29 May 1929 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to two believers; compilation ‘Consent of Parents to Marriage’, prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice)
