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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: to risks outside their knowledge or beyond their comprehension or
powers of resistance or foresight: for example, we have to look on
every day at marriages or financial speculations that may involve far
worse consequences than burnt fingers. And just as it is part of the
business of adults to protect children, to feed them, clothe them,
shelter them, and shift for them in all sorts of ways until they are
able to shift for themselves, it is coming more and more to be seen
that this is true not only of the relation between adults and
children, but between adults and adults. We shall not always look on
indifferently at foolish marriages and financial speculations, nor
allow dead men to control live communities by ridiculous wills and
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