“He’ll pay no mind to me anyhow,” MacRae answered. “That’s the healthy thing about kids.” - Robert A. Heinlein

In the first place there isn’t a distinguished anthropologist in the world but what you’ll find one equally distinguished who will call him a diamond-studded liar. They can’t agree on the simplest elements of their alleged science.

Now look carefully at what I said. I said that I know that these things are asserted. I did not say that they are true.

In sober truth no person can ever be truly responsible for another human being. Each one of us faces up to the universe alone, and the universe is what it is and it doesn’t soften the rules for any of us—and eventually, in the long run, the universe always wins and takes all. But that doesn’t make it any easier when we try to be responsible for one another—as you have, as I have—and then look back and see how we could have done it better.