Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) / quote 25 of 70
The death of the grown-up
she describes the parents who are serving their children in a way that is detrimental to their children’s growth and development. Another contemporary writer, Diana West, goes so far as to warn that this tendency is a threat to western civilization. Her book The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization is a “must read” for today’s concerned parents and teachers. She describes the ways in which many thirty-year-olds in the United States are still functional adolescents. It is a frightening trend.