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lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to
their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and
mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a
child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety
in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which
he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
~ Pearl S. Buck |