Tender parental instincts were all wrong, Watson wrote : " When you are tempted to pet your child remember that mother love is a dangerous instrument . . . . Never hug and kiss them, never let them sit in your lap.
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Fagan is charged with kidnapping the girls, then 5 and 2, and fleeing to Palm Beach during a custody battle in 1979 . He said he acted only to save the girls from an abusive mother : " It's a parental instinct.
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Yet since shortly after the ascent from the primordial ooze, the parental instinct has yearned to convey to beloved offspring the imperfect secrets of negotiating the unseen and unknowable path ahead, or at least to rough out some contours of the guideposts that may help the young wanderers to avoid straying too far from the narrow path.
