Animals Are Certainly More Sophisticated Than We

Adults Tend To Think They Have Much Free Will. Kids Younger Than Six Are Less Sure. They May Be More Realistic!

We're In A Culture Where Everything Is Either Consumption Or Production, So Child Care Is Either A Very, Very Bad-paying Form Of Work Or A Very Expensive Luxury That You Purchase. There Isn't A Good Place In Our Picture Of The World For What Caregiving Is About. Even Teenage Babysitters Have Sort Of Disappeared From The Scene.

I Think, At The End Of The Century We'll Have A Generation Of Parents And A Generation Of Children Who Won't Have Had The Deep Satisfactions Of Being Parents And Being Children In The Way That They Might Have And Are Going To Spend A Lot Of Time Fretting And Worrying And Being Hovered Over For Nothing. The Question Isn't So Much "what Will Happen In The Long Run?" But "what's Happening To People's Lives Right Now?"

Caring, Whether For Children Or The Dying, Shouldn't Be Instrumental. It Should Be An Intrinsic, Moral Good.

The Brain Is Highly Structured, But It Is Also Extremely Flexible. It's Not A Blank Slate, But It Isn't Written In Stone, Either.