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.
- Shoghi Effendi (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)
