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Quotation by Louise J. Kaplan
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Louise J. Kaplan (46)Additional Sources
Adolescence (1984)Adolescence (1994)No Voice Is Ever Wholly Lost (1995)Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual (1978)Related Subjects
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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.
Louise J. Kaplan (20th century), U.S. psychologist. Adolescence, ch. 5 (1984).
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