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I think, at the end of the century we'll have a generation of parents and a generation of children who won't have had the deep satisfactions of being parents and being children in the way that they might have and are going to spend a lot of time fretting and worrying and being hovered over for nothing. the question isn't so much "what will happen in the long run?" but "what's happening to people's lives right now?"
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I Think, At The End Of The

Alison Gopnik
I think, at the end of the century we'll have a generation of parents and a generation of children who won't have had the deep satisfactions of being parents and being children in the way that they might have and are going to spend a lot of time fretting and worrying and being hovered over for nothing. the question isn't so much "what will happen in the long run?" but "what's happening to people's lives right now?"
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