Continuing on the philosophical education front, this chapter takes a look at changes in our lives and how they are impacting the development of the young adult.
Again, it takes a look at the development of the child from a dependent being, to an interdependent, successful young adult. I wouldn't say that dependency is necessarily a bad thing for the child. However, when a young adult is experiencing a higher-than-normal level of dependency, that could be considered clinical co-dependency.
There is a middle area in this development called counter dependence, which we as adults observe in our children all the time - it is a pulling away from the authority that they needed when they were very dependent.
There is yet another topic that is discussed called inner-dependence, which I think goes hand-in-hand with c0-dependency in the case that a higher level of inner-dependence can have the tendency to wear off co-dependency that many adults experience.
All in all, the chapter does an effective job of discussing the young adults relationship to the self and world around them. Being self-reliant is expressed effectively within the discussion.
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