In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding child selects a hat and takes on that role: the good child, the black sheep, the clown, and so forth.


Between generations: the six stages of parenthood (ed. Smithmark Pub, 1981)

Ellen Galinsky Quotes

In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding...

In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding...

In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding...

In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding...