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Because let's talk about power. In the domestic polity, myth dictates that parents are endowed with a disproportionate amount of it. I ' m not so sure. Children? They can break our hearts, for a start. They can shame us, they can bankrupt us, and I can personally attest that they can make us wish we were never born. What can we do? Keep them from going to the movies. But how? With what do we back up o u r prohibitions if the kid heads belligerendy for the door? The crude truth is that parents are like governments: We maintain our authority through thе threat, overt or implicit, of physical force. A kid does whaе we say—not to put too fine a point on it—because we can break his arm.