As children become increasingly less connected to adults, they rely more and more on each other—a wholesale cultural subversion of the natural order of things. The natural order in all mammalian cultures, animal or human, is that the young stay under the wings of adults until they themselves reach adulthood. Immature creatures were never meant to bring one another to maturity. They were never meant to look to one another for primary nurturing, modelling, cue giving or mentoring. They are not equipped to act as one another’s focus of orientation, to give one another a sense of direction or
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