If you don't keep control over them from the time they are little, you would never get their wages when they are grown up. Another one said, "Ah, of course, she [the speaker] doesn't have to depend on her children's wages. She can afford to be lax with them, because if they don't give money to her, she can get along without it.

Source: Jane Addams, Democracy and Social Ethics

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