Adults Quote by Barney Frank

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are…

— Anonymous

Children are becoming disobedient why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.

— Cesar Millan

“There’s a general sense now that children’s rights, children’s needs, children’s wants and desires have taken on too prominent a place in our family…

— Judith Warner

Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.

— Alice Miller

The new concept of the child as equal and the new integration of children into adult life has helped bring about a gradual but…

— Marie Winn

I know how messy things can get when adults overstep their boundaries and insert themselves - their politics, their fears, their prejudices, their ignorance…

— Janet Mock

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

— Maria Montessori

Parents are almost fearful of disciplining their children. They are scared they are going to lose the connection with them when they are teenagers…

— Jo Frost

“A lot of conflicts arise when parents expect their children to behave like adults. You need to define and learn to differentiate an appropriate…

— Monica McBride

“The researchers discovered that there was a dramatic shift from an internal to an external locus of control in children of all ages, from…

— Jessica Joelle Alexander

We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.

— Gayle Rubin

It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.

— Anonymous