I Recommend: “We Don’t Die”

We Don’t Die:
George Anderson’s Conversations with the Other Side

Joel Martin and Patricia Romanowski
Putnam, 1988; Berkley, 2002.

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I read Raymond Moody’s Life After Life when it came out in the 1970s. It stunned and enthralled me. Moody’s research backed up what I had been taught at church – that death isn’t the end of life.

We Don’t Die, about spirit medium George Anderson, came out about a decade later. It caused another paradigm shift in my life. It blew away my already opened mind.

Reading We Don’t Die taught me the value of courage, independent thinking, and the denial of guilt. And it set me on my own search for Truth.

Picking up this book in the mid-1980s, when I was in my mid-30s, was difficult for me. Having been indoctrinated by Christianity’s taboos when I was young to fear the “occult”, I was frightened to read about a medium.

“Occult” means, literally, “hidden”, as in hidden knowledge. I didn’t believe that there was such a thing, or that if there was, God wouldn’t want us to have it, but indoctrination is indoctrination; people mimic the others in their own cultural groups, and generally believe what they are told by authority.

However, I felt that to avoid knowledge of spirit wouldn’t be the right thing to do. It would be the same as avoiding knowledge of love.

Needing spiritual comforting at that time in my life, I opened up this book. Trembling, afraid of what I would find in it, I started to read.

I’m very glad that I summoned up the courage. By the time I finished the book, I was no longer afraid of any kind of spiritual seeking or knowledge.

I was also no longer willing to listen to other human beings who wanted to tell me how to think. That was a major benefit to my life.

Whatever it is that Christian pastors think they’re warning people against when they warn against “the occult”, learning more about about spirit and the afterlife is nothing to be afraid of.

God created spirit, not the devil. God comforts people, not the devil. God tells the truth, not the devil.

Anything that promotes love, understanding, hope, tolerance, and joy is from God, not the devil. Jesus himself said that this was the test.

The knowledge of love and life is not dangerous. It does not harm.

Gaining knowledge and creating love are the only two things that we’re here on Earth to do, mystics, mediums, and near-death experiencers tell us that they’ve learned from God.

It was such a profound relief to me to be relieved of the church’s paranoid teachings.

I have been so much happier ever since. That is proof enough to me of this book’s truth.

 
Books:

We Don’t Die: George Anderson’s Conversations with the Other Side
Joel Martin and Patricia Romanowski. Putnam, 1988; Berkley, 2002.

Life After Life
Raymond Moody, M.D. 1975.

More books on this subject are at my Amazon bookstore on Spirituality.

 
Related Posts:

On A Child’s Near Death Experience
April 23, 2011

DSM Stupidity: Grief Edition
June 2, 2012

 

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Whoopi, Don’t Tell Me You Can’t

 

You can stop smoking.

 

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When someone smokes in my presence, his vice is not private.

His foul emanations find their way into my lungs and bloodstream.
His stench becomes my stench and clings to me.
His effluvia make their mark on me.

To be sure, he gets pleasure out of it.
But that is no excuse for victimizing me.

He raises my chance at heart disease and lung cancer for his pleasure.
I would not deprive him or her of lung cancer if he or she wants it dreadfully.
I just want a chance to avoid it myself.

If he feels he must smoke and that by objecting, I am depriving him of his freedom,
then would he be willing to bear with me if I feel I must kick him in the groin,
and that by objecting he would deprive me of my freedom?

Or, let me put it this way:

Your freedom to smoke ends where my lungs begin.

Isaac Asimov

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Whoopi Goldberg, I love you.

You are beautiful. You are funny. You are a terrific actor.

Jumpin’ Jack Flash is still one of my favorite movies of all time.

But I discovered recently, and quite surprisingly to me, that you smoke.

And, it appears, that your attitude toward smoking is the common one among some smokers that it is your “right” to smoke, even around other people. This is a popular rationalization, but it is illogical.

Smoking is actually one of the most selfish things you can do. And not because other people will have to take care of you when you get sick, and will miss you when you’re gone.

The selfishness of smoking has nothing to do with the health of the smoker. The selfishness of smoking is that it damages the health of other people, family and stranger, near and far.

It even damages the environment, hurting the entire the world.

In truth, smoking causes damage to others in ways that no other drug addiction can equal.

In all the ways that alcoholics hurt and destroy their families, a smoking addiction does just as much damage. Not just collateral damage, but actual, literal physical damage to your family’s bodies.

Your personal smoking fills your house with clinging toxins. It destroys the health of your kids and spouse. It pollutes the atmosphere. It sickens and kills people everywhere.

In your books, and on your television show The View (video), you have scolded people who have made it clear to you that they don’t appreciate being exposed to your cigarette smoke.

How selfish it is to scold people who don’t want to be damaged by someone else’s addiction. No backlash from smokers makes breathing smokers’ smoke any easier or any healthier for non-smokers. Complaining about it is worse than selfish, it is foolish.

I know you hate the anti-smoking laws, Whoopie. “But you know”, you’ve said, “[give smokers] a little respect. Because I understand that not everyone wants to smoke, I get that, but you can’t keep treating people like they don’t matter.”

It is smokers who treat other people like they don’t matter, Whoop. It is smoking around someone else that treats them like they don’t matter.

Excuses and justifications. It is smokers who have no respect for other people, Whoopi.

Like most non-smokers I can tell when someone is smoking in a car on a freeway miles ahead of me. Should I respect that?

Should I respect people whose tobacco smoke comes through the walls of my bedroom in the evenings, the nicotine and toxins of which keep me awake all night?

Non-smokers are sick of having to breathe in your tobacco smoke whenever they get within a half-mile of you, Whoopi.

An interview with you stated, “Goldberg has vowed to defy the [2011 New York City parks smoking] ban and pay the $50 fines for smoking in the newly-banned areas until nicotine lovers are given specially-designated spots to puff away in public.”

“She adds, ‘I’m going to take the hit, I’m gonna write the check, do everything until you guys do what you need to do to stop this nasty smell of cars and all the other nasty stuff… I’m smoking my cigarette, I’m sick of this!’”

When we non-smokers are exposed to your cigarette smoke in public, it’s true, we do “cough and gag and mutter, and furiously fan the air in front of our faces,” as Lynne Truss put it.

You have pointed at such behavior as intending to induce guilt in the smoker.

Non-smokers don’t do this to be rude. We do it because cigarette smoke is poison; it’s an involuntary physical reflex to being exposed to an airborne toxin.

We hope that waving our hands under our noses will help keep us from getting sick. Unfortunately, it doesn’t help much. Tobacco smoke is inescapable.

I have to admit that sometimes what we really want to do is approach you, grab the lit cigarette out of your mouth, and stomp it out on the ground.

Then grab your pack of cigarettes, throw it on the ground, and stomp on that, too, for your own good. And then pick you up by the scruff of the neck and throttle you for being so stupid.

We want to tell you that you should love yourself more than to smoke yourself to death.

That’s what we want to do. But what we do is walk through your cigarette smoke as quickly as we can, waving our hands under our noses and coughing to try to get your smoke out of our noses, lungs, and brains.

I love you, Whoopi Goldberg. I hope you find the courage, the will, and enough love for yourself to stop smoking.

If not for yourself, then for me.

(Just don’t take even more dangerous drugs to do it.

[PENDING: Here is my advice on how to do it. It is the best advice I know.]

 
Articles:

Flying over the Holidays? Secondhand Smoke Still Poses Health Risk at Some Airports
Olivia B. Waxman, Time, November 21, 2012

“60″
— Percent of large U.S. cities with laws that prevent smoking in public places.
Time, November 19, 2012

Plan to Become an Ex-Smoker for Good
Jane E. Brody, The New York Times – Well, November 12, 2012
- Doctors (and the media) don’t quite have the answer yet, but they’re getting there.
I recommend not taking any psychoactive drug to fight cravings.
They cause more problems than they solve.

The Major Toll of Secondhand Smoke
Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, September 21, 2012

Australian Court Approves Tobacco Pack Logo Ban
James Grubel, Reuters, August 15, 2012

Colleges may ban smoking
Absolute bans across campuses in several states could come soon
Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press (via Salon), June 27, 2012

Why It’s Never Too Late to Quit Smoking
Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, June 13, 2012

“Social” Smoking Is No Better for Your Brain
Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, March 20, 2012

This Pfizer Stop-Smoking Drug Allegedly Made A Man Fake His Own Death
Erin Fuchs, Business Insider, August 15, 2012

Smokeless Smokes
Derek de Koff, The New Yorker, October 23, 2011
- Don’t bother. They’ll delay and confound true quitting.

Heart Risks Added to Chantix Health Concerns
Madison Park, CNN, July 5, 2011

Smoking During Pregnancy May Result in Uncoordinated Kids
Bonnie Rochman, Time, September 28, 2010

How Secondhand Cigarette Smoke Changes Your Genes
Alice Park, Time, August 20, 2010

This Is My Brain on Chantix
I’d heard it was the most effective stop-smoking drug yet. So I took it. Then those reports of suicidal ideation began washing in.
Derek de Koff, The New Yorker, February 10, 2008

New Safety Warnings about Chantix
FDA, 2008

 
Books:

Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide, and Crime
Peter R. Breggin. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009.

Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today,
or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt The Door
Lynne Truss. Gotham, 2005.

Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Life in Letters
Isaac Asimov. Edited by Stanley Asimov. Doubleday, 1995.

 
Regarding:

Whoopi Goldberg fuming over New York’s new anti-smoking laws
Seattle PI, February 4, 2011

Whoopi: ‘I’m Smoking My Cigarette’
“The View” debates NYC’s smoking ban in parks, beaches and Times Square (video)
The View, ABC, February 3, 2011

Is It Just Me?: Or is it nuts out there? (book)
Whoopi Goldberg. Hyperion Books, 2010.

The War on Smoking Hits a New Low
New York’s Ban on Lighting Up in Public Places Highlights the Law’s Moral Double-standard
Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon, May 23, 2011
- Terrible article. Smokers’ desperately defensive rationalizations to smoke around other people have gotten out of hand. I’d say that it is smokers who have a double-standard about what is OK and what is not OK to do around other people, not non-smokers. Banning smoking is not “moralizing”, and the benefits of doing so far outweigh reducing mere “stinkiness”. Shame on Williams, who is usually right on when she’s not writing about smoking or drinking.

How To Smoke A Cigar With Your Boss Without Looking Like An Amateur (Only an Idiot)
Eli Epstein, Business Insider, June 27, 2012
- My father smoked cigars and he looked awesome doing it. Unfortunately, he died too young of stroke. Not so awesome.

 

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How Do You Raise Independent, Self-Sufficient Children?

(Not how.)

__________

 

Loving, Accepting, Supportive Parents

Create Happy, Successful Children

__________

 

I talked about Harry Harlow’s mid–twentieth century crusade
to persuade his fellow psychologists that love was a legitimate emotion,
that it mattered, that it shaped human development.

I’d been struck by a study he’d done with baby monkeys,
one that looked at mother rejection.

What the researchers saw was a sudden flowering of rather desperate outreach —
the babies put everything into making those mothers love them.
They cooed and cuddled, stroked and called.

It wasn’t just that they wanted to fix that first fundamental relationship,
they had to fix it before they could move on.

“You’re describing my patients,” a nurse who worked with
adult survivors of parental abuse told me.

They were 30, 40, 50 years old,
and they were still trapped in that childhood quest
of trying to make their parents love them.
 
Deborah Blum

__________

 

How do you raise independent, self-sufficient children?

How do you help your children grow up into becoming strong, capable, successful adults who can take care of themselves?

Should you love, empathize with, and emotionally support your children?

Should you be more cold, distant, and hands-off?

What is the morality, or perhaps the moral danger, of giving to your children versus not giving to them, helping versus not helping?

What is giving too much? What is helping too little?

Should you criticize or compliment? Help or force to do?

Both? Neither?

How much of each?

__________

 

We live in a culture that seems to scorn basic needs for intimacy,
closeness, and especially dependency, while exalting independence.

We tend to accept this as truth – to our detriment.

People are only as needy as their unmet needs.

When their emotional needs are met, and the earlier the better,
they usually turn their attention outward.

Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

__________

 

Where do parental love and support cross the line into making children dependent and weak?

First, let’s consider the concept of self-sufficiency.

Self-sufficiency is apprehended as the ability to be alone, to be independent, to be self-caring. It is seen as good.

But despite the high level of insistence on self-sufficiency in our culture, we all depend upon one another. No one really exists alone.

In fact, we all do better when we depend upon each other than when we try to survive without each other.

Self-sufficiency can be a philosophy; a determination to seek out isolation or aloneness to allow reflection. It can be helpful to get away from the rat race for a while, to appreciate nature or to contemplate one’s place in the universe.

But aloneness works best as a break from everyday life in order to recharge. It is not fulfilling as a permanent way of life.

Scientifically, human beings are social beings. But hanging out together is more than just fun or convenient for day to day living. Attachment and dependence are necessary for our very survival.

We are not merely happier, we are more successful when we live together, share with each other, and support each other than when we live alone and try to do everything ourselves.

__________

 

Virtually all children, even abused children, love their parents.
It’s built into the nature of being a child.

They may be hurt, disappointed, caught in destructive modes of being
that ward off any possibility of getting the love they yearn for.

But to be attached, even anxiously attached,
is to be in love.

Each year the love may become a little more difficult to access;
each year the child may disavow his wish for connection more firmly;
he may even swear off his parents and deny that he has any love for them at all.

But the love is there,
as is the longing to actively express it and to have it returned,
hidden like a burning sun.
 
Robert Karen

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Children are born loving and needing the love of their parents. This inborn love and need of love never diminishes; it is a part of human nature.

There is nothing parents can do for their children that will make their children more dependent and needy than withholding love from them, neglecting their needs, or refusing to support them.

That doesn’t mean that you let them grow up unloving, bad-mannered, selfish, or disrespectful of others; teach them what loving, good mannered, respectful, and kind behaviors are by modeling them yourself – especially with your own children.

It doesn’t mean that you give your children everything that they want, even things that are bad for them or that you can’t afford; children feel loved, and learn trust, when you prevent harm from coming to them, and respect you when you prevent harm from coming to yourself.

It doesn’t mean that you hover over your child’s life, doing their homework for them so that they get good grades at school, or calling their bosses at work, after they’ve grown, to make sure that they’re being treated right.

That is not love, it is neglect; it is disrespectful to your child as an individual for you live their life for them, or to try to. Conflating your child’s life with your own (or with your need for love, success, or approval from others) is not love, it is fear.

It is obviously not-love to criticize and control your children, to abuse them emotionally, verbally, or physically, or to reject them.

What is less obviously not-love is to smother them to the point where they can’t grow – or to withhold your love, affection, and attention from them out of fear of their dependence on you.

Without love we wither and die.

__________

 

Early emotional loss is the universal template for all addictions.
All addictions are about self-soothing.

And when do children need to sooth themselves?
When they are not being soothed.
 
Dr. Gabor Mate

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What makes children fail in life is coldness, abuse, or neglect from their parents.

Not love. Not giving. Not helping.

Children require love and support from their parents in order to survive and to grow into capable adults. Love and support prepare children to face the world on their own.

Parents who withhold love and support from their children will make their children try ever harder to get it.

When parents are too frightened, distracted, or misinformed to love their children naturally, attempts by children to provoke parental love may be expressed through what are sometimes misnamed “oppositional behaviors”, or even fake psychiatric diagnoses such “refusal syndrome” – crying, tantrums, bad moods, sullenness, withdrawal, running away, or rejection of the parents.

None of these behaviors are “being bad”. Children are not “born bad”. All children are born needing love, acceptance and support for who they are, and loving care.

Never assume that children behave badly out of bad intentions. Gently try to find out what’s wrong – you may be surprised at what is really going on.

Always assume this truth: what is not love is fear. Root out the fear beneath your child’s not-love, or “bad” behavior, and you may see it as not really bad, but the result of a defensive affective state that can be corrected through your love, understanding, and often, help or assistance.

Children are rarely born psychiatric patients. Psychiatric patients are made that way by their experiences with their parents. If that seems like putting too much responsibility, “unfairly”, on the parent, it isn’t. Parents are far more responsible for shaping their children’s reactions to the world than is generally recognized or accepted.

Badness, acting out, negativity, all are calls for love, for understanding of the child’s feelings and needs. Adults, with power, can ask for what they want or need. Children don’t have this power, preverbally, except in the form of crying, fussing, and later, by reaching for it. Afterwards, if their power is continually taken away from them by their parents, if their feelings and needs are denied them by their parents, or if they are punished or ignored when they express them, they may become permanently insecure and needy.

Children who only sometimes, or seldom, or never receive love and acceptance, support and protection, attention and encouragement from their parents will be traumatized – and therefore insecure and overly needy – forever.

__________

 

The more children experience affection
… the more curious they become about the world.

Love makes people smarter.
 
Deborah Blum

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Children need love and acceptance, support and protection, attention and encouragement from parents in order to grow up strong, confident, and able to thrive in the world.

These are such basic needs that nothing ever really heals the lack. They are so integral that when withheld, or the opposites given, children sometimes give up and decide that they must detach from, avoid, or as adults, become estranged from their parents in order to heal and to try to live happy lives, anyway.

That’s not the child’s selfishness or dysfunction – it’s a natural response to problems for the child that the parents caused.

Does love shown, strong protection offered, defense against the world promised, tenderness and caring demonstrated toward children (of any age) disable them?

Does parental love, acceptance, and encouragement turn children into dependent wimps?

The answer is no. Love does not make people weak or dependent. Love makes people confident and capable.

The more love, acceptance, encouragement, and support you give to your children throughout their lives, from babyhood to adulthood, the stronger, happier, and more successful they will be as children – and as adults.

__________

 

Belief in self-reliance is
very closely linked with a low degree of comfort
with intimacy and closeness.

[The] problem with self-reliance is the “self” part.
It forces you to ignore the needs of your [child]
and concentrate only on your own needs.

It prevents you (and the person you love) from the
feeling of joy of feeling a part of
something bigger than yourself.

Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

__________

 

I like how Deepak Chopra approached parenting.

He promised to his children unending love and support for as long as he lived, forever, no matter what happened to them. And then he gave it to them.

His children grew up with everything that they needed, emotionally and physically, to create their own happy, successful, independent lives.

How do you make your children self-sufficient and independent, in the sense of becoming capable adults?

The answer is that you love them with all your heart, allow them the freedom to grow, teach them the right ways to live, and help them whenever you can.

Love is more than the glue that keeps people together. People are more successful throughout their lives when they have other people to love and to be loved by.

 
Related Posts:

Love and the Cause of Revolution
November 6, 2011

Neglectful Parenting Excused by Drug-Expert Psychiatrist
July 15, 2010

 
Family Therapy and Counseling:

Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, Education & Living
- What is Empathic Therapy?
Dr. Peter Breggin.

Psychiatric Drugs and Your Child
Dr. Peter Breggin.

 
Family Relationship Books:

Love at Goon Park
Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
Deborah Blum. Basic Books, 2002. Paperback.
(Kindle)

Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control
A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment-Challenged Children With Severe Behaviors
Heather T. Forbes, B. Bryan Post. Beyond Consequences Institute, 2008. Paperback.
(Kindle)

Beyond Consequences, Logic, & Control
A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment-Challenged Children With Severe Behaviors, Volume 2
Heather T. Forbes. Beyond Consequences Institute, 2008. Paperback.
(Kindle)

Attached
The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love
Amir Levine, Rachel Heller. Tarcher, 2010. Paperback.
(Kindle)

Why Does He Do That?
Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Lundy Bancroft. Berkley Trade, 2003. Paperback.
This unexcelled book on family abuse is as much about parent-child relationships
as it is about partner relationships.
(Kindle)

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
Chris and Pax Prentiss. Power Press, 2005. Paperback.
(Kindle)

The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents
Guiding Your Children to Success and Fulfillment
Deepak Chopra. Harmony, 1997; 2007. Paperback.
(Kindle)

Free from Lies
Discovering Your True Needs
Alice Miller. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. Paperback.
(Kindle)

Becoming Attached
First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love
Robert Karen. Warner Books, 1994; Oxford University Press, 1998. Paperback.

The Attachment Parenting Book
A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby
William Sears and Martha Sears. Little, Brown and Company, 2001. Paperback.
(Kindle)

Help at Any Cost
How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids
Maia Szalavitz. Riverhead, 2006. Paperback.
(Kindle)

Find more books on Child Psychology at my Amazon Bookstore.

 
Articles:

Mary Ainsworth, 85, Theorist On Mother-Infant Attachment
Nick Ravo, The New York Times, April 7, 1999

To Err May Be Human; To Forgive Is Good for You
Erica Goode, The New York Times, May 22, 2001

He Was an Author Only a Mother Could Love
In the 1920s, John B. Watson’s parenting manual dispensed advice
that had the emotional warmth of ice
Ann Hulbert, Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2003

Tips on How to Love your Child
Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times, February 14, 2011

Dear Prudence: Am I a Cold Mama?
Emily Yoffe, The Washington Post, October 3, 2011
- Yes, the questioner is too cold to her children (her friends are right). Emily Yoffe, often a terrible advice-giver, enables her coldness, however. Sad.

12 Ways to Mess Up Your Kids
Alice G. Walton, The Atlantic, October 20, 2011

Childproofing: Crawling Your Way to Safety
Bob Tedeschi, The New York Times – Health, October 26, 2011

New Rules for Childproofing a Home
Tara Parker-Pope, The New York Times – Health, October 27, 2011

A Poverty Solution That Starts With a Hug
Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times, January 7, 2012

You Can Go Home Again
Karen L. Fingerman and Frank F. Furstenberg, The New York Times, May 30, 2012

Treating Addiction – A Top Doc Explains Why Kind Love Beats Tough Love
“Using punishment to try to rehabilitate people who have already suffered years of punishment doesn’t work”
Maia Szalavitz, Time, August 17, 2012
- Interview with Dr. Gabor Mate

Proving the Necessity of Nurture
Lisa Wade, The Society Pages, September 5, 2012

From Parents, a Living Inheritance
Ron Lieber, The New York Times, September 21, 2012
- Parents who are not afraid to support their kids have the most successful kids.

The Psych Approach
David Brooks, The New York Times, September 27, 2012
- Brooks understands the need for good parenting but misses the fact that it is key. Schools should and must help kids to be successful adults by teaching them good self-esteem, good relationships, good marriages, and good parenting, because parents often fail to, or are bad role models. Schools can help to fill in the gaps of what is missing at home.

Why Is Paddling Still Allowed In Schools?
Adam Cohen, Time, October 1, 2012
- “Corporal punishment is taking place in 19 states across the country, despite a raft of evidence that it causes serious harm in children . . . Corporal punishment has been linked to mental health problems in children. Studies have found that children who receive physical punishment are more likely to experience depression, suicide, and anti-social behavior. A Canadian study published this year [and many, many other studies] found a connection between corporal punishment and alcohol and drug abuse.”

How Do You Raise a Prodigy?
Andrew Solomon, The New York Times, October 31, 2012

Affectionate, Less Controlling Mothers Have Strongest Relationships With Their Children
Science Daily, February 4, 2013

Helicopter Parents May Breed Depression and Incompetence in Their Children
Bonnie Rochman, Time, February 22, 2013

Too Much Helicopter Parenting
Eli J. Finkel and Gráinne M. Fitzsimons, The New York Times, May 10, 2013

The Case For Living With Mom And Dad
Returning Home May Be A Route To Financial Independence
Quentin Fottrell, MarketWatch, May 7, 2013
- The result of an overcrowded planet.

 

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