Thus shared scorpfromhell

This then is the position of the child living in grown-up surroundings. He is a disturber; one who seeks, without finding it, something of his own; who enters only to be driven out. It is the position of one with no civil rights, no territory, nothing — the condition of one outlawed, to whom nobody owes respect. He may be insulted, buffeted, whipped by anybody, everybody considering that he has a natural right to use the child as he pleases— the natural rights of grown-ups.