Pope Francis wants parents to hide rows from their children. Who is he kidding? | Geraldine Bedell

Children are incredibly alert to tension between their parents. Better to have conflict – and then resolution – out in the open

Pope Francis has been offering parenting advice and, sad to say, it is rubbish.

It would, perhaps, be more surprising if it were sensible. The Catholic church is an institution dominated by avowedly celibate men who are not meant to have children. Then there is its – how shall we put it? – distinctly patchy recent record of prioritising the needs of children, which you would think might disqualify it from opining about anything much.

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