« I have always thought that early sex is a sign of fragility, not self-assertion. »

« Pathological theft is quite common in adopted children. These are often regressive behaviours. Theft is a challenge to parents, a provocation that requires them to show that their love is so great and unconditional that they are able to keep all their affection for their child, even if he commits wrongdoing. »

« All our lives, we will learn to navigate between these two vital necessities: to bind and separate, to attach and detach, to leave and return, to leave and to find... `...` Can we easily separate? No, at most we learn to put in place defensive strategies to suffer as little as possible from the separation that is always difficult. That is why there is no point in ordering a child: "Be autonomous!" regardless of his abilities. The job of the parents is to identify the slightest attempt at autonomy of their minots, not to get ahead of it. `...` Opposition, protest, provocation, rebellion are not proofs of dislove, but signs of evolution and maturation, a way for the child to ask: - Untie me! »