Why does my child theme break my Divi website's header menu? - wordpress-theming

When I activate my child theme, the header menu on my website displays a combination of all header and footer menu items plus others that aren't on any menu. I was able to activate the same child theme on a staging site of my website where the menus all displayed properly. I even tried activating the child theme on the live site without any files in the child theme folder. Even without any files in there, the problem still happened. Re-activating the main divi theme solves the problem, but obviously means I can't have a child-theme.
I've tried the usual google search avenues for this problem but haven't found anything or anyone with the same problem. Has anyone here had this kind of problem with divi or a different theme before and may I ask what you did to solve it?
Many thanks

Eventually, I realised my problem happened when changing languages, therefore it was related to my language plugin Polylang. From there I found someone else with the same problem recently who found out the solution: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polylang-doesnt-work-with-child-theme/

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Thank you for your help and your time.
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if I understand your question correctly, I'd say it's not safe to remove the background CSS from the theme's style.css (or whatever file it is using). The problem might be theme updates that'll overwrite your changes.
So the best would be to create a child theme with a fews clicks, it's really easy:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
So you won't have to bother with updates.
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