If its energy is not equal to this adventure, then it is the part of a truly loving parent to push it over the edge of the nest.

Of course there are dangers and risks.

But the worst dangers and risks come of the failure to adventure, of the refusal to face the tasks of the world and to assume the full function of life.

All that Freud has told of the paralysing and maiming influence of infantile arrest or regression is here profitable to consider.

In order, moreover, that the relationship between parents and children may retain its early beauty and love, it is essential that it shall adapt itself to adult conditions and the absence of ties so rendered necessary.