“In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness.... This would be so even if there were a possibility for perfect babies and perfect mothers.” IfsHumansChildrenStillsWould BeMotherPerfectPossibilityBabyAdultsHelplessStill Life Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual
“When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we but they are the germinators of future generations. Will they leave us behind as we did our parents? Consign us to neatly paved retirement villages? Trample us in the dust as they go flying out to their new galaxies? We had better tie them down, flagellate them, isolate them in the family cocoon, . . . indoctrinate them into the tribal laws and make sure they kneel before the power of the elders.” ChildrenReasonLawParentBehindsGenerationsAdultsFlyingDustTiesVillageRetirementFearfulAdolescenceGalaxyEldersFuture GenerationCocoons Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.” PeopleWayYoungParentCompassionMiddleYouthPrideAdultsTreatsTendernessGrandparentElderlyAvariceMiddle AgedDisillusionInhumane Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our environment. We persist in exploring, investigating, inventing, discovering. In these respects humans of all eras, in all societies, all ages of life, are more like baby chimps and not at all like the sedate and rigidly conforming adult chimpanzee, who hasn't changed much since she was five or six years old.” YearsHumansAgeCreativeEnvironmentFiveChangedBabySixAdultsCapacityActiveErasInteractionDiscoveringPersistExploringConformOur EnvironmentInventingChimpanzeesInvestigatingSix Year OldsSenilityIrrepressible Book:Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood
