Painful that bit about your parents never hearing about what you do. Remember my surprise when I realized that my son and I liked the same music. I thought the generation gap was just news story. Lots of weight put on being ‘among the fold’ in Anglican culture. My folks were mid-Atlantic types, basically Edwardians, married before the war. When I showed them a video of an hunchback clown act I did, halfway through I turned around to find they had tip toed out of the room and gone upstairs. I guessed nothing would be said when I joined them. Nothing was. ‘Diverging’ as you say, has extensive consequences.