My wife and I get along with our adult kids. I got along with my parents, she got along with hers. But I gather, mostly from things our kids say about their friends, that a lot of young adults don't get along with theirs. 3. The possibility of having children who don't like you strikes me as one of the scariest things about having children. If it is becoming more common, could that be part of the reason for declining birth rates' Other consequences' There are two views of children ' that they are small people who do not yet know very much or that they are pets who can talk. I prefer the former. One implication is that children and parents are, in a fundamental sense, peers. Obviously they are not equal in what they know or what they can do or how strong they are. But they are not different sorts of people in a way that goes beyond that. Children should usually believe their parents about things the parents know much more about but parents should believe children when that asymmetry...
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