We will never have a firm grasp of how to raise children until we have come to some collective understanding of what it means, morally as well as occupationally, to be an adult. One of the things that the dropouts and other misfits of the 60s were trying to tell the grown-up world was that the available models of adulthood were not acceptable - at least not to young people who had learned to distinguish the worthy from the absurd.
- Barbara Ehrenreich, reviewing Bruno Bettleheim's book A Good Enough Parent, New York Times Book Review, May 24, 1987