The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

Permissiveness rarely achieves the goal of helping children grow up, and often inadvertently, produces just the opposite — emotionally immature adults.  Could that possibly be why we have Presidents, Governors, US Senators, and Mayors of large cities hiring prostitutes?  The pshychologist Thomas Szasz desribed it well:  “Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making usre they never reach that stage.”