David Elkind - Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger

Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents and the society as a whole would like to believe. . . . The perception of childhood competence has shifted much of the responsibility for child protection and security from parents and society to children themselves.

- David Elkind

source: David Elkind (2009). “Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance”, p.119, Harvard University Press

topic: Children, Believe, Responsibility, Responsibility For Children