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Content: These are the beliefs we adopt from those we think are trustworthy and knowledgeable. As children, many of our beliefs are adopted beliefs. Normally, these may be challenged as children get older (this process may begin as early as 9 or 10 years of age). As they gain more information, that information and/or experience may seem to contradict what we believed earlier. Maybe we believed that our parents always told us the truth and then found out that they lied. Or maybe we received new beliefs from someone outside the family that contradicted the adopted beliefs from our parents. At that point we must do one of three things. First, we can reject what we have learned earlier (here we see that an earlier belief is overridden by a later belief) and accept the new belief. Second, we can simply ignore the new information. Third, we can try to make the new information somehow fit with our present network of beliefs.