It is thus a task for both men and women. For children, the medium is the message. Hovering, on the other hand, can translate as engulfment. The fundamental need of the developing child is to be fully held and fully dependent. And then the child needs to initiate her or his own gradual independence, in her or his own time.
All parents fail.
The future of the planet is, in part, dependent upon establishing the raising of healthy children as THE central priority. Life is bigger than we think. All of these, as well as the painfully slow process of parents' freeing themselves from the wounds of their own past, interact - thus complicating the process of historical change. Nevertheless, it is essential to establish priorities. There can be no more fundamental priority than the raising of healthy children.