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%REBELLION PROMPTING LEGALISM 781028
Young people often rebel against the legalism of
their parents---and at times against what they perceive to
be legalism when parents' behavior is motivated by genuine
love. The misdirected rebellion may be occasioned by
misapprehension due to immaturity, and tax the parents
ability to endure. The parents are likely to be tempted
to take defensive refuge in legalistic assertions of their
rights not to be abused. In this way adolescent rebellion
against apparent legalism may intensify legalism due to
human finitude. The chance of this happening is greater
for families in legalistic contexts than for families in
non-legalistic contexts. In legalistic contexts,
rebellious adolescents project onto their parents the
motivations which pervade the society---misapprehending
legalistic motivations in behavior occasioned by genuine
love.
In such situations both parents and adolescents tend
to experience double-binds. The rebellious adolescent who
doubts the parents' love, will not have the vision of that
love restored by either parental protestations of love, or
legalistic requirements of respect. Only parental
sacrifice and suffering is likely to be convincing; but
it may be more demanding than finite parents can endure.
The adolescent who is asked to trust the parents' love
without question---may get trapped and be smothered by a
home which will not grant its children the freedom they
need to be themselves. The adolescent who totally
distrusts the parents' love may perceive only legalists,
and fail to recognize lovers---and in self-defense become
a legalist in rebellion against the inhumanity of
legalism.
Legalism is not transcended by rebellion against
legalism. Rebellion tends to be alienative, and occasions
the conditions which are conductive to the objective
manipulations which characterize legalism. Legalism is
transcended by love, not by rebellious attacks upon its
inadequacies. The recitation of the inadequacies of
legalism does not occasion love, where there is no love.
Rebellion against legalism tends to promote legalism.
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