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Best-selling author of "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class" | Senior Fellow, @ManhattanInst | All Views My Own

Sep 15, 2020, 7 tweets

Trust vs. Mistrust is Stage 1 of Erik Erikson's 8 stages of psychosocial development

-If child develops trust with parents, they go on to believe that the world is basically trustworthy

-If child is mistreated, they go on to become suspicious/mistrustful of others later in life

"Millennials are also more likely than older generations to report that they have no acquaintances (25% of Millennials say this is the case), no friends (22%), no close friends (27%), and no best friends (30%)."

"When adults let their children down, kids learn to make choices that let themselves down. Our disappointment with adults led us to believe that rules weren’t actually legitimate. They were invented by adults...Why should we listen?" city-journal.org/family-instabi…

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