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as quoted in Woman to Woman by Julia Gilden and Mark Riedman (1994)Blackberry Winter (1972)Coming of Age in Samoa (1928)Culture and Commitment (1970)Male and Female (1949)

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The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (1901–1978), U.S. anthropologist. Male and Female, ch. 9 (1949).

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