Children are a relatively powerless minority, and, like all oppressed people, they know more about their oppressors than their oppressors know about them. Information is currency, and information that will allow you to decode the language, motivations and behavior of the occupying forces, on whom you are uniquely dependent for food, for warmth, for happiness, is the most valuable information of all. Children are extremely interested in adult behavior. They want to know about us. Their interest in the precise mechanics of peculiarly adult behavior is limited. All too often it seems repellent,
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