The Cause of Children, Françoise Dolto

Perhaps never before had a child been spoken of so beautifully and so accurately. Of their truth, of their desire. Even if it meant shocking. Confronted by a collective inquiry into multiple subjects: the representation of the child throughout history, their place in our society, at birth, at school, Françoise Dolto reacted, drawing on her own past and her experience as a child psychoanalyst and a mother. In her usual manner, she stated truths that were sometimes difficult to hear, defending the cause of children to the very end against an education that perverts through overprotection, against the cult of a single norm, submission to fleeting trends, and the imposition of the parental model. All her answers, all her solutions, were guided by a single idea: by respecting the child, we respect the human being.