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  • If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.

    David Elkind (2009). “The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition”, p.26, Da Capo Press