Parents sacrifice their dwindling free time (and their own social lives) to make sure their kids are safe and want for nothing. It starts off innocently enough, with play dates for their toddlers set up weeks in advance, and then it snowballs to the point where everyone is overwhelmed—and bragging about it. Inn elementary school, may youngsters attend activities every afternoon because their parents are afraid to let them ride bikes down the street. Workdays end with frenzied trips to pick up the kids: no one wants to leave a 6-year-old alone on a soccer field in the dark.
The basis of the family is, of course, the fact that parents feel a special kind of affection towards their own children, different from that which they feel towards each other or towards other children. It is true that some parent feel little or no parental affection, and it is also true that some women are capable of feeling an affection for children not their own almost as strong as that which they could feel for their own. Nevertheless the broad fact remains, that parental affection is a special kind of feeling which the normal human being experiences towards his or her own children, but not towards any other human being.
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