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February
7, 2007:
Why So Many Adults Never Grow-Up
Interview
with Dr. Sonya Friedman, author of Take
It From Here
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Mike
Carruthers:
The
obsession we have with staying young in our
culture has had an interesting and perhaps less than
desirable consequence.
Dr. Sonya Friedman:
We have unfortunately suggested to people that
growing up and having responsibilities is not the
better part of life, that being free and loose is
really what makes life fun to live.
Psychologist
Dr. Sonya Friedman, author of the book
Take
It From Here, says for the first time in history
adults today lack a very basic ability...
...the ability
to grow up, which means getting older
gracefully. And it's not a point of accepting
anything, it's a point of having a youthful attitude
about life, but not behaving like a child.
Dr. Friedman
believes this inability to grow up is
particularly bad news for women.
And women today
really have less power because
they've reduced themselves to a lot of the common
denominators that we used to see as the worst
characteristics of men.
And those characteristics
often show themselves in
women's desire to find a man.
Women come to
feel that the more clothes they take
off, the sexier they attempt to be; the more they whip
their hair around, that is what really attracts men.
You know years ago women held themselves out as
ladies. They felt is was more important for them to
be sexy in bed, not necessarily out on the street. All
of that reversal of that has really not worked well
for women and hasn't worked well for men.
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