An ability that must further undermine the exercise of authority. Children are considered blameless so children can't be held responsible for their actions. Children are not to be hurt has inspired the belief that striking offspring should be forbidden. So it has become popular to consider the imposition of discipline by smacking is not only unnecessary but positively harmful for the child. The presumption behind such a concept is that children would normally become respectable, responsible, mature adults unless their upbringing was perverted - an absurd idea.
Children remain selfish a quality that confers cowardice and foolishness .