One reason for educating children about forgiveness is to prepare them for the injustices they will experience in adulthood. I also suppose that a longitudinal study to explore this from childhood to adulthood would take at least 20 years, so it probably hasn’t been done yet. Would this be a worthwhile study?
This would be an amazing study and also a difficult study because, as you say, the researchers would have to wait decades to see the effects of the forgiveness education in adulthood. Yet, for now, this is an important hypothesis. Locating the children when they are adults might be very difficult, especially in conflict zones of the world, where geographic mobility is common. Yet, your idea is a great one worth keeping in mind by researchers.
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