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  • Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents and the society as a whole would like to believe. . . . The perception of childhood competence has shifted much of the responsibility for child protection and security from parents and society to children themselves.

    David Elkind (2009). “Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance”, p.119, Harvard University Press