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How can responsibility be given to the immature and to the irresponsible? There
is no way out of the dilemma that unless it is granted, the child cannot learn
how to exercise it.
Like every other skill, it needs to be practised under adult guidance which then gradually diminishes during adolescence and adulthood. That it is worth taking the risks involved has been shown by the work of those who make this a central issue of their care for deprived, disturbed or delinquent young people. Yet to some extent, family, school and society may be failing to provide sufficient and sufficiently graded training for responsibility and autonomy. |
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