Childhood Adversity

Famous quotes containing the words childhood and/or adversity:

“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 (20th century)

“Honesty, by evil fortune tried,
Finds in adversity the seed of praise.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)