Julius Drachler states:

The fear of losing the children haunts the older generation. It is not merely the natural desire of parents to retain influence over the children.... It is a vague uneasiness that a delicate network of precious traditions is being ruthlessly torn asunder, that a whole world of ideals is crashing into ruins; and amidst this desolation the fathers and mothers picture themselves wandering about lonely in vain search for their lost children.

Souce: Leonard Covello, The Social Background of the Italo-American School Child (N.J., 1972), 314

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