The book's array of anecdotes and examples attempt to prove a chilling point. The point is that our nation is one of adults regressing towards adolescence and adolescents with no desire to become adults. Where have all the grownups gone? In his interpretation of social change, he sees a society adolescent in its behavior, no matter what age or geographic location.

"Sibling society" acts as a lens focusing on tendencies, habits and griefs we have all noticed. Of all these griefs and tendencies none is so destructive as the absence of fathers. The role of t

he father has gone through a drastic change. Fathers are no longer the sole center of the family, the breadwinners. In traditional society older men played an important role in rearing boys. But in our society the elderly is locked behind the doors of nursing homes and not around to pass down their wisdom. Respect for elders has given way to the furious competition of peers who strive not to be good but to be famous. Where have all the grownups gone? With single parents working full time jobs, babies are carted off to day care centers to have someone else raise them instead of their parents.

children of their ability to use their imagination just when it should be flowering. Instead of art, we have

He relies on biological and sociological studies to present startling new ideas in fleshing out his main thesis. Bly maintains that we have neglected our elders and abandoned our children to become a horizontal, sibling society attempting to raise each other. We are literal thinkers who lack sensitivity to symbolism. He sees evidence in the common use of first names and in the rise in youth crime, and in "...fatherless, neglect of the young, and hatred of authority and codes." He fears for the kind of world that children of the sibling society will build.

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