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America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

There are two kinds of fathers in traditional households: the fathers of sons and the fathers of daughters. These two kinds of fathers sometimes co-exist in one and the same man. For instance, Daughters Father kisses his little girl goodnight, strokes her hair, hugs her warmly, then goes into the next room where he becomes Sons Father, who says in a hearty voice, perhaps with a light punch on the boys shoulder: Goodnight, Son, see ya in the morning.
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
