Our children are not individuals whose rights and tastes are casually respected from infancy, as they are in some primitive societies . . . . They are fundamentally extension of our own egos and give a special opportunity for the display of authority.

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Ruth Benedict was a 19th-century American anthropologist and folklorologist. Ruth Fulton Benedict was an American anthropologist and folklorist. Read more on Wikipedia →

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