We are still barely conscious of how harmful it is to treat children in a degrading manner. Treating them with respect and recognizing the consequences of their being humiliated are by no means intellectual matters; otherwise, their importance would long since have been generally recognized.

For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002) - ISBN: 9781466806764