The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it.... Adolescence entails the deployment of family passions to the passions and ideals that bind individuals to new family units, to their communities, to the species, to nature, to the cosmos. Therefore, given half a chance, the revolution at issue in adolescence becomes a revolution of transformation, not of annihilation.

Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood (ed. Touchstone Books, 1995) - ISBN: 9780684800622